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"A lady asked Franklin: "Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?". Franklin replied: "A Republic, if you can keep it."

"A penny saved is two pence clear."

"Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us."

"He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle."

"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed."

"If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few."

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."

"Well done is better than well said."

"The dignity of his office is never impaired by the absence of efforts on his part to maintain it."

"The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted."

"In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside."

"Give me no light, great heaven, but such as turns To energy of human fellowship; No powers save the growing heritage That makes complete manhood."

"The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily does not wait to be done by perfect men."

"Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers."

"Works of genius are the first things in this world."

"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning."

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."

"The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase."

"It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite."

"Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work."

"Look at the grace and sweetness of men and women in the street..."

"Poor is the pupil that does not surpass his master."

"Thou, O God, sellest us all benefits, at the cost of our toil...."

"Tristo é lo discepolo che non avanza il suo maestro."

"You can find good taverns from mile to mile."

"If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?"

"A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent."

"Cunning and deceit will every time serve a man better than force to rise from a base condition to great fortune."

"In judging policies we should consider the results that have been achieved through them rather than the means by which they have been executed."

"It is not titles that make men illustrious, but men who make titles illustrious."

"Quello che giova al nimico nuoce a te, e quel che giova a te nuoce al nimico."

"That which is good for the enemy harms you, and that which is good for you harms the enemy."

"The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body."

"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."

"All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction."

"Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition."

"The cup of life is not so shallow That we have drained the best That all the wine at once we swallow And lees make all the rest."

"'Tis the first art of kings, the power to suffer hate."

"Unrighteous fortune seldom spares the highest worth; no one with safety can long front so frequent perils. Whom calamity oft passes by she finds at last."