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Human Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must…
- Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of…
- Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.
- Hope is an essential constituent of human life.
- It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason; he…
- Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect…
- I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel: We…
- If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes, which should be…
- After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a…
- Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be…
- Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
- To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.
- All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often…
- The human brain is like a railroad freight car -- guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty.
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle