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Zitate/Quotes by Benjamin Franklin 41-80
41 You may delay, but time will not.
42 Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.
43 A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
44 A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
56 A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
46 Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
47 Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
48 He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
49 If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
50 If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.
51 Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
52 Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
53 I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
54 It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
55 It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
56 A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
57 Beauty and folly are old companions.
58 He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
59 Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
60 In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
61 Write your injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
62 Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes.
63 Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
64 No nation was ever ruined by trade.
65 Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
66 Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
67 Never leave that till tomorrow which you can to today.
68 Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
69 He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
70 He that can have patience can have what he will.
71 Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
72 Lost time is never found again.
73 You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
74 Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
75 All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
76 A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
77 Beware the hobby that eats.
78 Energy and persistence conquer all things.
79 God helps those who help themselves.
80 He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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