"Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin
Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
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“Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.”
“Ben Franklin was a little stout later in life and it was said that in Paris a young woman, tapping him on his protruding abdomen, said,"Dr. Franklin, if this were on a woman, we'd know what to think." And Franklin replied,"Half an hour ago, Mademoiselle, it was on a woman, and now what do you think?"”
“Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”
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“But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.”
“I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.”
“"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."”
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“One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.”
“To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.”
“The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this. In a position of wealth and honor, he does what is proper to a position of wealth and honor. In a poor and low position, he does what is proper to a poor and low position.”