More from Benjamin Franklin

  1. Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd: Whatever sooths our Pride, and tends to exalt our Species above the rest of the Creat…
  2. 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 more vici…
  3. Remember that time is money.
  4. The Game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to …
  5. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
  6. Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
  7. We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, …
  8. There never was a good war or a bad peace.

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