Бенджамин Франклин: Цитаты на английском языке

Бенджамин Франклин было американский политический деятель, дипломат, учёный, изобретатель, журналист, издатель, масон. Цитаты на английском языке.
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“But I must own that I am much in the Dark about Light. I am not satisfy'd with the doctrine that supposes particles of matter call'd light continually driven off from the Sun's Surface, with a Swiftness so prodigious!”

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Benjamin Franklin

Letter to Cadwallader Colden (23 April 1752).
Epistles

“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”

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Benjamin Franklin

Letter to Josiah Quincy (11 September 1783).
Epistles

“Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure when he is really selling himself a slave to it.”

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Benjamin Franklin

“If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. ”

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Benjamin Franklin

“Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade? ”

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Benjamin Franklin

“The first degree of folly is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise counsel.”

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Benjamin Franklin

“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.”

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Benjamin Franklin

“Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.”

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Benjamin Franklin