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Benjamin Franklin
January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790
Nationality: American
Category: Politician
Subcategory: American Politician

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

   

Industry need not wish.

   

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

   

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

   

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

   

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

   

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

   

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

   

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

   

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

   

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

   

Honesty is the best policy.

   

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

    Topics: Marriage

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

   

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

   

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

   

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

   

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

   

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

   

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

   

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