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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.

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Art

All Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Money

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Work

“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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Success

“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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Good

“God helps those who help themselves.”

— Benjamin Franklin

God

“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Time

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Love

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Anger

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Good

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Work

“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Finance

“Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Life

“Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Great

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Learning

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Great

“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Great

“It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Great

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Good