Benjamin Franklin Quotes (page 6)

1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
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“God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.”
Virtue
“Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.”
Complaints and Complaining
“If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.”
Age and Aging
“If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.”
Service
“To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.”
Affliction
“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
Death and Dying
“Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.”
Genius
“If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.”
Money
“Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.”
Enemies
“To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.”
Modesty
“It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.”
Desire
“There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”
Greatness
“Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.”
Habit
“In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.”
Faith
“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.”
Self-knowledge
“Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.”
Children
“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.”
Heart
“Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.”
Pleasure
“Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.”
Prayer
“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”
Age and Aging
“He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.”
Peace
“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
Cooperation
“Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.”
Knowledge
“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
Anxiety
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
Time and Time Management
“At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”
Age and Aging
“Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.”
Idleness
“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.”
Work
“A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.”
Faults
“If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.”
Time and Time Management