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Benjamin Franklin
(17 Jan 1706 - 17 Apr 1790)
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes on Life (7 quotes)
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Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
— Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
— Benjamin Franklin
The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it so as to become habits ready on all occasions.
— Benjamin Franklin
There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors—this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.
— Benjamin Franklin
To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.
— Benjamin Franklin
To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy Meals.
— Benjamin Franklin
Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.
— Benjamin Franklin
See also:
- 17 Jan - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Franklin's birth.
- Benjamin Franklin - context of quote “Dangerous... to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust” - Medium image (500 x 350 px)
- Benjamin Franklin - context of quote “Dangerous... to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust” - Large image (800 x 600 px)
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, by Walter Isaacson. - book suggestion.
- Booklist for Benjamin Franklin.