"Lend money to an enemy, and thou will……" — Benjamin Franklin
"Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him."
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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 Best Friend Quotes
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
— Pietro Aretino
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
— Aristophanes
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
— Aristotle
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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
— Aristotle
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there…
— Francis Bacon
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the…
— Honore de Balzac
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
— Edward Abbey
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A friend in power is a friend lost.
— Henry Adams
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A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
— George Ade
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
— William Blake
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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
— William Blake
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