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“Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“I will never attend an anti-war rally; if you have a peace rally, invite me.”
― Mother Teresa

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
― Henry Ford

“No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“After awhile you could get used to anything.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!”
― Benjamin Franklin

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
― Albert Einstein

“Concentrate every minute like a Roman— like a man— on doing what’s in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice. And on freeing yourself from all other distractions. Yes, you can— if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered , irritable. You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life? If you can manage this, that’s all even the gods can ask of you.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, "What are your thinking about?" you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Humans are attracted to each other’s rough edges.”
― Mark Manson, Models: Attract Women Through Honesty

“O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“The Golden Age was never the present Age.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“A fine genius in his own country, is like gold in the mine.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac

“A full belly is the mother of all evil.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac

“An egg today is better than a hen tomorrow.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac

“Be always ashamed to catch thyself idle.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac

“Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, and countenance.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Do not do that which you would not have known.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Fear to do ill, and you need fear nought else.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Good wives and good plantations are made by good husbands.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“I have never seen the philosopher's stone that turns lead into gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a man's gold into lead.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“It is ill-manners to silence a fool, and cruelty to let him go on.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“There's small revenge in words, but words may be greatly revenged.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“They who have nothing to trouble them will be troubled at nothing.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos