"If Men are so wicked as we now……" — Benjamin Franklin
"If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?"
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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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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good…
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries…
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our…
— James A. Baldwin
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In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious.…
— Alan Ball
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself…
— Honore de Balzac
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Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
— Henry Adams
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During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away…
— Bernard Baruch
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It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned…
— William Bernbach
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