Benjamin Franklin citations célèbres
“Bien faire en faisant ce qui est bon.”
Doing Well by Doing Good.
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L'un des plus fameux slogans de Benjamin Franklin cité dans la préface par Luc-François Salvador, Chairman and CEO de Sogeti
I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
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Tiré de On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor (1766)
They who can give up essential liberty, to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Franklin cite une lettre de 1755 de l'Assemblée de Pennsylvanie au gouverneur de cet état. Bien qu'elle lui soit souvent attribuée, il n'est pas clairement établi que la phrase soit de lui.
Benjamin Franklin: Citations en anglais
Letter to Cadwallader Colden (23 April 1752).
Epistles
“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
Source: Quoted by Gerald Gawalt in " In His Own Words: Library Exhibition Celebrates Tercentenary of Benjamin Franklin's Birth https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0601/franklin.html"