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There are 223 quotes for the author Benjamin Franklin

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Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Lost time is never found again.

And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

To err is human; to repent, divine; to persist, devilish.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

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