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Quotes from Contarini Fleming — Benjamin Disraeli

1804–1881 England

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10 quotes

Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.

Contarini Fleming (1832)

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Contarini Fleming (1832)

Never apologize for showing feeling, my friend. Remember that when you do so, you apologize for truth.

Contarini Fleming (1832)

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Contarini Fleming (1832)

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Contarini Fleming (1832)

The sense of existence is the greatest happiness.

Contarini Fleming (1832)

Amusement to an observing mind is study.

Contarini Fleming (1832)

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

Contarini Fleming (1832)

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

Contarini Fleming (1832)

With words we govern men.

Contarini Fleming (1832)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Benjamin Disraeli (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.