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He was a vegetarian most of his life until as an elder statesman he traveled to Paris: Venison and venery defeated me.
By Benjamin Franklin
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
By Benjamin Franklin
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
By Benjamin Franklin
Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.
By Benjamin Franklin
Who is wise He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful He that governs his passions. Who is rich He who is content. Who is that Nobody.
By Benjamin Franklin
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.
By Benjamin Franklin
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
By Benjamin Franklin
Whilst the last members were signing the Constitution, Doctor Franklin, looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art, a rising, from a setting, sun. I have, said he, often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President, without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting; but now at length, I have the happiness to know, that it is a rising, and not a setting sun.
By Benjamin Franklin
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.
By Benjamin Franklin