Benjamin Franklin
United States
17 Jan 1706 // 17 Apr 1790
Writer/Scientist
17 Jan 1706 // 17 Apr 1790
Writer/Scientist
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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them
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
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it
If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone
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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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