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Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.
Otto von Bismarck
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Otto von Bismarck
Age: 83 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 1
Died: 1898
Died: July 30
Diplomat
Jurist
Politician
Statesman
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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There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.
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If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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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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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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Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
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Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.
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You can do anything with children if you only play with them.
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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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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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In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you.
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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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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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I have never lived on principles. When I have had to act, I never first asked myself on what principles I was going to act, but I went at it and did what I thought fit. I have often reproached myself for my want of principle.
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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 less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night
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This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs it can only be carried out through blood and iron.
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