Benjamin Franklin
United States
17 Jan 1706 // 17 Apr 1790
Writer/Scientist
17 Jan 1706 // 17 Apr 1790
Writer/Scientist
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If you desire many things, many things will seem few
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning
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
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees
He that won't be counseled can't be helped
He that rises late must trot all day
He that lives upon hope will die fasting
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
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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