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Schriftsteller, Naturwissenschafter, Verleger, Politiker, Diplomat, ab 1785 Gouverneur von Pennsylvania, gilt als einer der Gründerväter der Vereinigten Staaten (USA, 1706 - 1790).

Benjamin Franklin · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Benjamin Franklin wäre heute 318 Jahre, 8 Monate, 22 Tage oder 116.413 Tage alt.

Geboren am 17.01.1706 in Boston
Gestorben am 17.04.1790 in Philadelphia
Sternzeichen: ♑ Steinbock

• Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues.

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• If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

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• If you do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.

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• If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

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• If you would have a faithful servant and one that you like, serve yourself.

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

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• In dealings between man and man, truth; sincerity and integrity are of the utmost importance to the felicity of life.

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• In the affairs of this world, men are saved, not by faith, but by the want of it.

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• In the course of my observation, the disputing, contradicting and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

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• In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

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• In transactions of trade it is not to be supposed that, as in gaming, what one party gains the other must necessarily lose. The gain to each may be equal. If A. has more corn than he can consume, but wants cattle; and B. has more cattle, but wants corn; exchange is gain to each; thereby the common stock of comforts in life is increased.

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• Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor; but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling followed or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while idleness and neglect increase them.

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• Industry pays debts, despair increases them.

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• Industry pays depts, despair increases them.

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• Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

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• Innocence is its own Defence.

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

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• It is easy to see, hard to foresee.

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• It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth.

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• Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens.

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