Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

made the greater progress from that greater clearness of head and quicker apprehension which usually attend temperance in eating and drinking.

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

Osborne went to the West Indies, where he became an eminent lawyer and made money, but died young. He and I had made a serious agreement, that the one who happened first to die should, if possible, make a friendly visit to the other, and acquaint him how he found things in that separate state. But he never fulfilled his promise.

Think what you do when you run in debt: you give another power over your liberty.

Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native luster about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame that cannot be painted.

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears; while the used key is always bright

There is no small enemy.

Quão conveniente é ser uma criatura racional; isso permite que se encontre ou crie uma razão para qualquer coisa que se queira fazer.

those who trade freedom for safety deserve neither

For age and want save while you may; No morning sun lasts a whole day.

You will observe with Concern how long a useful Truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally receiv'd and practis'd on.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain, but ever, while you live, expense is constant and certain.

queria agradar a todos e, tendo muito pouco a oferecer, oferecia expectativas

Success has ruined many a man.

my desire being to gain knowledge at the same time that I improv'd in virtue, and considering that in conversation it was obtain'd rather by the use of the ears than of the tongue, and therefore wishing to break a habit I was getting into of prattling, punning, and joking, which only made me acceptable to trifling company,

Rather go to bed supperless, than in debt.

Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'Tis the stone that will turn all your lead into gold.

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

one of the great autobiographies of the world.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn

Wine: Proof that God loves us and that he likes to see us happy.

A biblioteca foi um meio para eu me desenvolver pela constância do estudo que me consumia de uma a duas horas por dia. [...] A leitura era a única diversão que eu me permitia. Não perdia tempo em tabernas, com jogos ou qualquer outro tipo de futilidade.

O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.

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