Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

The nearest I can make it out, Love your Enemies means, Hate your Friends

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning

Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.

Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.

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

I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.

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

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.

An education is the investment with the greatest returns.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

An investment in education always pays the highest returns.

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

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.

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

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

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

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

Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.