To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
Weitere Zitate von Benjamin Franklin
Zum Autor"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them."
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
"The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself."
"If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles."
"A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one."
"How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says."