Famous quotes by Statesmans

"Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune!"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"A man's as miserable as he thinks he is"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"A great mind becomes a great fortune"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"You will find, as you grow older, that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"The very phrase 'foreign affairs', makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"It is easier to be critical than correct"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Assassination has never changed the history of the world"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"As for our majority... One is enough"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Almost everything that is great has been done by youth"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

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