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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.

“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Work

All Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

“In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Faith

“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Good

“Well done is better than well said.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Motivational

“Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Men

“Applause waits on success.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Success

“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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Success

“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge

“To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Alone

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Age

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Great

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Business

“He that can have patience can have what he will.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Patience

“Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Good

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Faith

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Art

“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Good

“Honesty is the best policy.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Best

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Work

“He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Love