There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Quote by Benjamin Franklin
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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
- Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
- He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
- A place for everything, everything in its place.
- Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
- Diligence is the mother of good luck.
- Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
- If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
- Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
- Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Best Quotes
- In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.
- The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
- I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.
- Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
- I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
- A great mind becomes a great fortune.
- Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30,000 feet are remarkably slim. I also have no problem with confined spaces. Or heights. What I am afraid of is speed.
- I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
- I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
- An idea is salvation by imagination.