Benjamin Franklin Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

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

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Lost time is never found again.

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And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

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Where liberty is, there is my country.

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Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.

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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

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

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If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

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A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

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For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

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The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

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

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How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

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A penny saved is two pence clear.

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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

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An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.

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Remember that credit is money.

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

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Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

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

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I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

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Industry need not wish.

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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.

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We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

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Don't throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

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If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

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Beauty and folly are old companions.

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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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