"Our necessities never equal our wants." — Benjamin Franklin
"Our necessities never equal our wants."
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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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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
— Hannah Arendt
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
— Aristotle
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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state…
— Aristotle
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because…
— Aristotle
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
— Jane Austen
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I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than…
— David Bailey
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From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen…
— Honore de Balzac
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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not…
— Honore de Balzac
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His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
— James M. Barrie
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