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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, 7 Monate, 21 Tage oder 116.381 Tage alt.

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

• Folly is wisdom spun too fine.

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• Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.

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• Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

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• God grant not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the fights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth - so that a philosopher my set his foot anywhere on its surface and say, "This is my Country".

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• God grant that all nations will be permeated not only with love of freedom but also with a profound knowledge of the rights of man.

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• God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.

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• God helps them that help themselves.

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• God works wonders now and then; Behold! a Lawyer, an honest Man.

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• Great spenders are bad lenders.

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• Half the truth is often a great lie.

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• Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

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• Happiness consits more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

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• Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it is.

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• He gives twice that gives soon, i.e., he will soon be called to give again.

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• He may well win the race that runs by himself.

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• He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.

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• He that can have patience, can have what he will.

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• He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

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• He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

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• He that hath a trade hath an estate and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.

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