Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

American statesman and physicist

Lived from: 1706 - 1790

Category: Politics | Scientists Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 17 january 1706 Died: 17 april 1790

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  • Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
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  • Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
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  • Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
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  • Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
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  • Energy and persistence alter all things.
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  • Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
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  • He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.
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  • He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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  • He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
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  • If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
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  • If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
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  • Labour is still the road to prosperity, and there is no other.
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  • Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
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  • Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
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  • Nothing preaches better than the act.
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  • Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
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  • Spinoza Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
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  • The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
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  • The things which hurt, instruct.
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  • The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.
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