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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.
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A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law
Benjamin Franklin
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy revenging one make you but even with him forgiving it sets you above him.
Benjamin Franklin
Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.
Benjamin Franklin
Games lubricate the body and the mind.
Benjamin Franklin
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.
Benjamin Franklin
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
Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.
Benjamin Franklin
If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
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Opportunity is the great bawd.
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Revealed religion has no weight with me.
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Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security.
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If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.
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While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Benjamin Franklin
Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither.
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The only time not wasted is wasted time.
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I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.
Benjamin Franklin
He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.
Benjamin Franklin
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Benjamin Franklin
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
