Benjamin Franklin

Find the best quotes, maxims and aphorisms of Benjamin Franklin

Biography : Born: 1706 - Died: 1790
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: United States

United States

Benjamin Franklin - Quotes

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
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death

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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A place for everything, everything in its place.
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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
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Necessity never made a good bargain.
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necessity

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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Honesty is the best policy.
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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
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love

God works wonders now and then Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
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mistake

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
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anger

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
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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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happiness

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
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Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
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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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Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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Beware the hobby that eats.
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
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Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
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happiness

Lost time is never found again.
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time

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
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life

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
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The doors of wisdom are never shut.
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wisdom