Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour Quotes

• The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.

  Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

  Mistake, Men, Trust Issues

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• What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.

  Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

  Patriotism, Would Be, Scoundrels

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• I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

  Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

  Sarcastic, Art, Truth

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• In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor.

  Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

  Politics, Absurd, Rancor

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• In a word, the free Church in a free State has been the programme which led me to my first efforts, and which I continue to regard as just and true, reasonable and practical, after the studies of thirty years.

  Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

  Years, Effort, Religion

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• European lotteries are the tax on fools.

  Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

  Gambling, Fool, Taxes

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• Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

  Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

  Statistics, Imbeciles, Taxes

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