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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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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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Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is based on millions of Russian ... The latter, even if they break up international treaties, just as quickly re-connect with each other, like pieces of a particle of mercury.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.
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With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.
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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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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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We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their companions in life. I wish I could believe that too.
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Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.
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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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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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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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I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
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You can do anything with children if you only play with them.
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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
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