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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.

“Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Work

All Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Happiness

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Age

“A place for everything, everything in its place.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Inspirational

“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Life

“Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Love

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Faith

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Good

“Observe all men, thyself most.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Men

“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Great

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge

“Hunger is the best pickle.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Best

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Money

“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.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Happiness

“Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Peace

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Life

“If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Time

“For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Change

“God works wonders now and then Behold a lawyer, an honest man.”

— Benjamin Franklin

God

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Good

“Beauty and folly are old companions.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Beauty