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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.

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Life

All Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Work

“Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Time

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Faith

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Peace

“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Anger

“There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Good

“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Education

“Remember that credit is money.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Money

“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Great

“He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Money

“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Life

“Time is money.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Money

“He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Family

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Good

“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Experience

“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Good

“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

“Necessity never made a good bargain.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Good

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Patience

“Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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