"Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden,……" — Benjamin Franklin
"Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful"
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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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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were…
— Karen Armstrong
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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself…
— Johann Arndt
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I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're…
— David Bowie
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I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every…
— Karel Capek
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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
— Alexis Carrel
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on…
— Frank Zappa
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After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.
— Diane Ackerman
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
— Ovid
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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer…
— Angela Carter
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In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away…
— Saint Augustine
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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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