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

Quote by Benjamin Franklin

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Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.

Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall...

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall...

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

It's easy to see, hard to foresee.

It's easy to see, hard to foresee.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them...

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them...

Our necessities never equal our wants

Our necessities never equal our wants

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty,...

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty,...

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something...

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something...

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason...

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason...

Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming

Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming

Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and...

Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and...

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to...

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to...

Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her maskVice knows she's ugly, so puts on...

Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her maskVice knows she's ugly, so puts on...

No vice is so bad as advice

No vice is so bad as advice

Vices are often habits rather than passions

Vices are often habits rather than passions