A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. - 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
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. - 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
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.' - Benjamin Franklin
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it. - Benjamin Franklin
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. - Benjamin Franklin
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