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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  • Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
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  • Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
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  • Let thy discontents be thy secrets.
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  • Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
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  • Love thy neighbor - but don't pull down your hedge.
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  • Love well, whip well.
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  • Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
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  • Lying rides upon debt's back.
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  • Man is a tool-making animal.
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  • Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
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  • Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
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  • Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
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  • Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
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  • Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
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  • Most fools think they are only ignorant.
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  • Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
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  • Necessity never made a good bargain.
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  • Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
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  • No nation was ever ruined by trade.
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  • Observe all men, thyself most.
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