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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

American statesman and physicist

Lived from: 1706 - 1790

Category: Politics | Scientists Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 17 january 1706 Died: 17 april 1790

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  • There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him.
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  • There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
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  • There never was a good war or a bad peace.
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  • There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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  • They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.
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  • They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
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  • They who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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  • Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.
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  • Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
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  • Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
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  • Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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  • Three can keep a secret if two are dead.
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  • Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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  • Three removes are as bad as a fire.
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  • To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
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  • To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
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  • To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
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  • Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes.
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  • Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
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  • Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
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