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True Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.
- Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but…
- I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the…
- 'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping…
- I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those…
- Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the…
- No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.
- Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.
- A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds…
- Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should…
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- I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original. — Aaliyah
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood