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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.

    On the Constitution (1787)
  • Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

    Benjamin Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ..., 1”, p.129
  • Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

    Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.11
  • Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.

    Benjamin Franklin (1976). “Poor Richard: An Almanack”, David McKay Company
  • God helps those who help themselves.

    Jack Vincent, Benjamin Franklin (2010). “Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth”, p.29, The Way to Wealth
  • A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.

    Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.73, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

  • Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.

    Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.41, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
  • The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.

    Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.82, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

    Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.6, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Moderation in all things - including moderation.

  • 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.

    Andrew M. Allison, Willard Cleon Skousen, M. Richard Maxfield, Benjamin Franklin (1982). “The Real Benjamin Franklin”
  • Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

    Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.12, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
  • The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

    Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.24, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
  • Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

  • Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

    Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.38, Courier Corporation
  • Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

    Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1746
  • Honesty is the best policy.

    Benjamin Franklin (2007). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757”, p.209, Regnery Publishing
  • Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

    Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.38, Courier Corporation
  • Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

    Benjamin Franklin (2013). “The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living”, p.46, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.

  • 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

  • The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

    "Gleanings among the Sheaves, The First Lesson", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 878-82, 1922.
  • Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

    Benjamin Franklin (2013). “The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living”, p.1, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • 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.

    Benjamin Franklin (193?). “The life and letters”
  • Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.

    Benjamin Franklin (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including the Private as Well as the Official and Scientific Correspondence Together with the Unmutilated and Correct Version of the Autobiography”
  • Better slip with foot than tongue.

    Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing
  • Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended

  • Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

    Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.62, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
  • The doors of wisdom are never shut.

    Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.105, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
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    Benjamin Franklin

    • Born: January 17, 1706
    • Died: April 17, 1790
    • Occupation: Founding Father of the United States