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Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.
Otto von Bismarck
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Otto von Bismarck
Age: 83 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 1
Died: 1898
Died: July 30
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Otto Eduard Leopold
Prince of Bismarck
Duke of Lauenburg
Iron Chancellor
Otto von Bismarck-Schönhausen
Prince Bismarck
Bismarck
Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen Fürst von Bismarck
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Politics are not a science based on logic they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.
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Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.
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They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow (Schlaukopf) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History
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One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family under certain conditions, one can even rely upon it but one can never expect anything from the gratitude of a nation.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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Do not expect that once taking advantage of Russia's weakness, you will receive dividends forever. Russian has always come for their money. And when they come - do not rely on an agreement signed by you, you are supposed to justify. They are not worth the paper it is written. Therefore, with the Russian is to play fair, or do not play.
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A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.
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The luxury of one's own opinion.
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If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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