He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals. – Benjamin Franklin
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. – Benjamin Franklin
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. – Benjamin Franklin
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. – Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. – Benjamin Franklin
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. – Benjamin Franklin
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. – Benjamin Franklin
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. – Benjamin Franklin
A place for everything, everything in its place. – Benjamin Franklin
He that lives upon hope will die fasting. – Benjamin Franklin
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. – Benjamin Franklin
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. – Benjamin Franklin
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. – Benjamin Franklin
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. – Benjamin Franklin
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. – Benjamin Franklin
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. – Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie. – Benjamin Franklin
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste. – Benjamin Franklin
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed. – Benjamin Franklin
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. – Benjamin Franklin
