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There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not.

Otto von Bismarck

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Otto von Bismarck
Age: 83 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 1
Died: 1898
Died: July 30
Diplomat
Jurist
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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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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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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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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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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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One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).
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I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.
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