Benjamin Franklin Zitate auf Englisch

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

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

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God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

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I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

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

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The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

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He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

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You may delay, but time will not.

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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

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

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

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Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

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Our necessities never equal our wants.

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If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

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To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

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

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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

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Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

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Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

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Observe all men, thyself most.

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Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

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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.

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Honesty is the best policy.

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The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

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The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

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