Benjamin Franklin Quotes
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201. “Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.”

— Benjamin Franklin

202. “Creditors have better memories than debtors.”

— Benjamin Franklin

203. “Half a truth is often a great lie.”

— Benjamin Franklin

204. “Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.”

— Benjamin Franklin

205. “Moderation in all things – including moderation.”

— Benjamin Franklin

206. “Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.”

— Benjamin Franklin

207. “Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.”

— Benjamin Franklin

208. “There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.”

— Benjamin Franklin

209. “Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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210. “Where there’s no law, there’s no bread.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

212. “Critics are our friends, they show us our faults.”

— Benjamin Franklin

213. “The sleeping fox catches no poultry.”

— Benjamin Franklin

214. “The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance.”

— Benjamin Franklin

215. “I would rather have it said, ‘He lived usefully,’ than, ‘He died rich.’”

— Benjamin Franklin

216. “I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.”

— Benjamin Franklin

217. “Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.”

— Benjamin Franklin

218. “Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.”

— Benjamin Franklin

219. “Hope of gain lessens pain.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

221. “The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.”

— Benjamin Franklin

222. “It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.”

— Benjamin Franklin

223. “Hunger never saw bad bread.”

— Benjamin Franklin

224. “If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough. Let us then be up and doing, and doing to a purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.”

— Benjamin Franklin

225. “And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?”

— Benjamin Franklin

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226. “Great talkers, little doers.”

— Benjamin Franklin

227. “Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.”

— Benjamin Franklin

228. “The doors of wisdom are never shut.”

— Benjamin Franklin

229. “A little neglect may breed great mischief.”

— Benjamin Franklin

230. “Stand firm, don’t flutter!”

— Benjamin Franklin

231. “A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.”

— Benjamin Franklin

232. “The handshake of the host affects the taste of the roast.”

— Benjamin Franklin

233. “Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.”

— Benjamin Franklin

234. “A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.”

— Benjamin Franklin

235. “The way to be safe is never to be secure.”

— Benjamin Franklin

236. “Get what you can, and what you get hold; ’tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.”

— Benjamin Franklin

237. “Death takes no bribes.”

— Benjamin Franklin

238. “Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.”

— Benjamin Franklin

239. “The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn’t make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.”

— Benjamin Franklin

240. “It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.”

— Benjamin Franklin

241. “To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.”

— Benjamin Franklin

242. “Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.”

— Benjamin Franklin

243. “If you want to keep a secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

245. “Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.”

— Benjamin Franklin

246. “Life is a kind of chess.”

— Benjamin Franklin

247. “If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”

— Benjamin Franklin

248. “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

249. “Order – Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin