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Best Things Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
- There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
- 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…
- Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
- If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
- If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
- Those things that hurt, instruct.
- You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.
- Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at…
- People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.
- One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
- If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
- Excess in all other Things whatever, as well as in Meat and Drink, is also to be avoided.
- If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.
- In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top
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- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle