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A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as quick, their memory as strong, and their docility in every respect equal to that of white children (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
If you’d be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration? (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
... it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state; more so than riches or arms (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and I formed written resolutions... to practice them ever while I lived (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Nothing is so tiresome to one’s self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet! (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
To be thrown upon one’s own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics? (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
The next thing most like living one’s life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)