Benjamin Franklin citations

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“Nous creusons notre tombe avec nos dents.”

“Si un homme pouvait satisfaire la moitié de ses désirs, il aurait deux fois plus de problèmes.”

“Bien faire en faisant ce qui est bon.”

“Je pense que le meilleur moyen de faire du bien aux pauvres n’est pas de leur rendre la pauvreté moins dure mais de les en sortir.”

“Ceux qui sont prêts à abandonner une liberté fondamentale, pour obtenir temporairement un peu de sécurité, ne méritent ni la liberté ni la sécurité.”

“Faites-vous des moutons, et les loups vous mangeront.”

“Nous n'arrêtons pas de jouer parce que nous grandissons, nous grandissons parce que nous arrêtons de jouer.”

“Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few. ”

“Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked and never well mended.”

“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.”

“If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will. ”

“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. ”

“He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he see. ”

“He that lives upon hope will die fasting. ”

“Time is money.”

“Sloth makes all things difficult. ”

“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.”

“For in politics, what can laws do without morals? ”

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

“Не does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him.”

“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I learn.”

“Fish and visitors stink in three days.”

“The mind is always asking you to do something over again, something you have already done so many times before. And every time you see that by doing it nothing is achieved. What else can madness be?”

“To be mad is to keep repeating something that has already been seen as useless, as worthless.”

“Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics and limited monarchies derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates.”

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

“Well done is better than well said.”

“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.”

“There never was a good knife made of bad steel.”

“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”

“One today is worth two tomorrows.”

“Honesty is the best policy.”

“Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.”

“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”

“A republic, if you can keep it.”