3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin 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.
