Work as if you were to live a thousand years, play as if you were to die tomorrow.
Benjamin FranklinTo be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
Benjamin FranklinSlavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils. The unhappy man who has been treated as a brute animal, too frequently sinks beneath the common standard of the human species. The galling chains, that bind his body, do also fetter his intellectual faculties, and impair the social affections of his heart… To instruct, to advise, to qualify those, who have been restored to freedom, for the exercise and enjoyment of civil liberty… and to procure for their children an education calculated for their future situation in life; these are the great outlines of the annexed plan, which we have adopted.
[For the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, 1789]
Tag: slavery abolition debasement
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Benjamin FranklinTag: willful-ignorance ignorance close-mindedness
The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.
Benjamin FranklinSo convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
Benjamin FranklinTag: kindlehighlight
Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin FranklinThe heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Benjamin FranklinTag: heart
Quien renuncia a su libertad por seguridad, no merece ni libertad ni seguridad
Benjamin FranklinJustice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
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