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Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) was an American polymath — a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. His wit and practical wisdom, captured in works like *Poor Richard's Almanack*, made him one of the most quotable figures in American history.

“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Anger

All Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

“The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Faith

“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Courage

“Fatigue is the best pillow.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Best

“There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Money

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Good

“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Great

“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Life

“We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Respect

“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Marriage

“Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Good

“At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Age

“Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Good

“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Funny

“A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Great

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Success

“The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Art

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Learning

“He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Peace

“I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Death

“There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Great