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Man Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- [E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a Voice in Elections,…
- Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.
- I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night
- I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a…
- Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
- A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to…
- A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.
- So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry…
- The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.
- A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.
- I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into…
- In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no…
- It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and…
- A dying man can do nothing easy.
- A man is not completely born until he is dead.
- Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being…
- There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their…
- And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it,…
- A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd…
- The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.
- The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money…
- At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.
- I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or…
- We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies…
- I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and…
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle