Benjamin Franklin

United States
17 Jan 1706 // 17 Apr 1790
Writer/Scientist

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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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
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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