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It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason; he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it... Happiness springs immediately from the mind (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
It was said of him that he did not say much, but that when he did everyone stopped to listen (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
If you can’t pay for a thing, don’t buy it. If you can’t get paid for it, don’t sell it (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
My problem with the internet is that any fool can share a quote without even verifying its source (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war... this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock from an electrified large glass jar, taken through his own body, will probably convince him (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
If you would know the value of money; go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again! (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
In order to be happy you need a good dog, a good woman, and ready money (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Do you love truth for truth’s sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others? (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)