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Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Money

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Benjamin Franklin

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.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

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If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

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Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

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Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Time

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

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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

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Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

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Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

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Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

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Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

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

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More Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

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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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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

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And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

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All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

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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 displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

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How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

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When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

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

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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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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

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He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

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

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Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

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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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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

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Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

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Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

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

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

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The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

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

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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

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When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

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It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

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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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All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

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We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

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To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

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