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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  • If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
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  • If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
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  • If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
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  • If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
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  • If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
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  • If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with to the other world?
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  • In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
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  • In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
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  • In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
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  • In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
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  • Industry need not wish.
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  • Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
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  • It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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  • It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
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  • It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
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  • It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
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  • It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
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  • It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
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  • Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
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  • Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
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