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

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
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For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
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death

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
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anger

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
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How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
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courage

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
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Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
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time

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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Time is money.
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time

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
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value