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Benjamin Franklin Quotes about Evil

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If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.

If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.

Benjamin Franklin
Evil, Bears, Action

A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil.

Benjamin Franklin
Mother, Food, Evil
Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.8, Courier Corporation

A full Belly brings forth every Evil.

Benjamin Franklin
Food, Evil, Belly
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.247, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Slavery 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.

Benjamin Franklin
Abolition Of Slavery, Evil, Care
Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1840). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.515

Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners.

Benjamin Franklin
Children, Garden, Evil

Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.

Benjamin Franklin
Evil, Choices, Desire
Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.238

Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain.

Benjamin Franklin
Pain, Evil, Worry
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.24, Nayika Publishing

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