Benjamin Franklin: Citáty anglicky

Benjamin Franklin byl americký autor, politický teoretik, politik, poštmistr, vědec, vynálezce, občanský aktivista, státník a diplomat. Citáty anglicky.
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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).
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“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”

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Benjamin Franklin

Letter to Josiah Quincy (11 September 1783).
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“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

“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