"Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise" — Benjamin Franklin
"Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise"
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Benjamin Franklin
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1,166 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin has 1,166 quotes on this site.
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
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Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.
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Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we…
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Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of…
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[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution…
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It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped
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I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a…
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Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for…
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Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.
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Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is…
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
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It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
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More Cunning Quotes
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one of 270 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
— Francis Bacon
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Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest…
— Francis Beaumont
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'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as…
— John Berger
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
— William Blake
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The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they…
— George W. Bush
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Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
— Pablo Casals
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None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a…
— Lydia M. Child
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I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
— Thomas Paine
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In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your…
— Cesare Pavese
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