Benjamin Franklin

US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

Benjamin Franklin

US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

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

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, ?

US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.

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Benjamin Franklin

US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

I believe I shall,in some shape or other,always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, In response to the situation of the colonists

US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.

Benjamin Franklin, In response to the situation of the colonists

Benjamin Franklin

US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin