953 ordspråk av Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin föddes den January 17th 1706 och dog den 17 April 1790 - writer and inventor.
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 Innocence is its own Defense.

 Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.

 Is there any thing Men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?

 It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

 It is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox

 It is better to take many Injuries than to give one

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

 It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

 It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance

 It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

 It is remarkable that soldiers by profession, men truly and unquestionably brave, seldom advise war but in cases of extreme necessity.

 It is the observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own

 It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

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

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


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