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Informationen über Benjamin Franklin

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, 3 Monate, 7 Tage oder 116.245 Tage alt.

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

• Keep your eyes wide open before you marriage, half shut afterwards.

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• Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

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• Leisure is time for doing something useful, and this leisure the diligent man will obtain.

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• Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

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• Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.

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• Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

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• Little strokes fell great oaks.

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• Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.

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• Man is a tool-making animal.

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• Mankind are very odd creatures: One half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure; the rest always say and do as they ought.

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• Marriage is the most natural state of man, and . . . the state in which you will find solid happiness.

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• Men and melons are hard to know.

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• Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.

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• Necessity never made a good bargain.

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• Neither trust, nor contend, nor lay wagers, nor lend, And you'll have peace to your life's end.

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• Never confuse motion with action.

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• No gain without pains.

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• No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.

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• No nation was ever ruined by trade.

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• No power - however great - can force men to change their opinions.

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