"There is no kind of dishonesty into..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”

“We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.”

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”

“The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets.”

“I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.”

“Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.”

“Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.”

“You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their shoes. But I ask you: where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been? Is there not in all of life itself - robbing and killing? And when such words were called holy, was not truth itself thereby - killed?”

“Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.”