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Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens.
Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.
Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance.
We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.
The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.
'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.
Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep.
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.
Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.
If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.
Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.
In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"
Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?
Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself.
Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty
A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain.
Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.
On second thought, it's a good thing love is blind otherwise it would see too much.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.
When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.
The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.
A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.
Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather.
One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.
Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
Visit your Aunt, but not every Day; and call at your Brother's, but not every night.
Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!
Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.
If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.
Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.
I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.
Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.