Zitate von Benjamin Franklin
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Benjamin Franklin:
Wein macht das tägliche Leben einfacher, weniger hektisch, mit weniger Spannungen und mehr Toleranz.
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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, 2 Monate, 12 Tage oder 116.219 Tage alt.
Geboren am 17.01.1706 in Boston
Gestorben am 17.04.1790 in Philadelphia
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What is the use of a new-born child?
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What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.
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When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one - then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and canceling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.
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When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that, were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.
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When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
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When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.
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When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.
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Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
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Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.
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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
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Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know . . . Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors.
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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
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Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.
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You cannot pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.
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À vingt ans, la volonté est reine; à trente, c'est l'esprit; à quarante, le jugement.
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Femmes, vin, jeu et tromperie font la fortune petite et les besoins grands.
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Il est plus facile de résister au premier de ses désirs qu'à tous ceux qui le suivent.