Benjamin Franklin
United States
17 Jan 1706 // 17 Apr 1790
Writer/Scientist
17 Jan 1706 // 17 Apr 1790
Writer/Scientist
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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt
Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never
Industry, perseverance and frugality make fortune yield
In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires
If you wouldst live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins
Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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