" It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

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

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote. "

Benjamin Franklin, ? US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

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

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" I believe I shall,in some shape or other,always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" Well done is better than well said. "

Ben Franklin

" Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" Critics are our friends, they tell us our faults. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" Energy and persistence conquer all things. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" He who multiplies riches multiplies cares. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

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

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

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