Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Quote by Benjamin Franklin
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
- All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
- In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
- A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
- For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
- I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
- There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
- Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
- There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
- Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Best Quotes
- Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
- To secure peace is to prepare for war.
- Rather be dead than cool.
- Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
- The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.
- Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
- Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
- Faith is spiritualized imagination.
- For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.
- I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.