Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a folly.
--Benjamin Franklin
沉默并不是智慧的标志，但唠叨永远是一项蠢行。
--本杰明·富兰克林

Love your neighbor--but don't pull down your hedge.
--Benjamin Franklin
爱你的邻居--但不要拆掉你的篱笆。
-- 本杰明·富兰克林

Content makes poor men rich;discontent makes rich men poor.
知足使贫穷的人富有；而贪婪使富足的人贫穷。
——Benjamin Franklin 本杰明·富兰克林

The world is full of fools and faint hearts;and yet every one has courage enough to bear the misfortunes and wisdom enough to manage the affairs of his neighbor.
这个世界到处是蠢人和怯懦者，然而每个人都有足够的勇气去忍受别人的不幸，有足够的智慧去管别人的事情。
——Benjamin Franklin 本杰明·富兰克林

If time being of things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
——Benjamin Franklin
如果时间是最宝贵的东西那么浪费时间就是最大的浪费。
——本杰明·富兰克林

Lose not time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. ---Benjamin Franklin
不要浪费时间，做些有益的事情，停止一切不必要的行动。 -----本杰明。富兰克林

At twenty years of age， the will reigns; at thirty ， the wit; and at forty， the judgment. ---Benjamin Franklin
二十岁时起支配作用的是意志，三十岁时是机智，四十岁时是判断。 ----本杰明。富兰克林

If time being of things the most precious， wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. -----Benjamin Franklin
如果时间是最宝贵的东西，那么浪费时间就是最大的浪费。 ----本杰明。富兰克林

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth， nor liberty to purchase power. -----Benjamin Franklin
不要出卖美德换取财富，也不要用自由交换权力。 -------本杰明。富兰克林

Eat to please yourself, but dress to please others.
—— Benjamin Franklin
吃为了满足自己，穿则为了取悦他人。
—— 本杰明·富兰克林

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
—— Benjamin Franklin
如果一个人倾其所有以求学问，那么这些学问是没有人能拿走的。
—— 本杰明·富兰克林

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　　benjamin franklin was born in milk street, boston, on january 6, 1706. his father, josiah franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children benjamin was the youngest son. his schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother james, a printer, who published the "new england courant." to this journal he became a contributor, and later was for a time its nominal editor. but the brothers quarreled, and benjamin ran away, going first to new york, and thence to philadelphia, where he arrived in october, 1723. he soon obtained work as a printer, but after a few months he was induced by governor keith to go to london, where, finding keith's promises empty, he again worked as a compositor till he was brought back to philadelphia by a merchant named denman, who gave him a position in his business. on denman's death he returned to his former trade, and shortly set up a printing house of his own from which he published "the pennsylvania gazette," to which he contributed many essays, and which he made a medium for agitating a variety of local reforms. in 1732 he began to issue his famous "poor richard's almanac" for the enrichment of which he borrowed or composed those pithy utterances of worldly wisdom which are the basis of a large part of his popular reputation. in 1758, the year in which he ceases writing for the almanac, he printed in it "father abraham's sermon," now regarded as the most famous piece of literature produced in colonial america. meantime franklin was concerning himself more and more with public affairs. he set forth a scheme for an academy, which was taken up later and finally developed into the university of pennsylvania; and he founded an "american philosophical society" for the purpose of enabling scientific men to communicate their discoveries to one another. he himself had already begun his electrical researches, which, with other scientific inquiries, he called on in the intervals of money-making and politics to the end of his life. in 1748 he sold his business in order to get leisure for study, having now acquired comparative wealth; and in a few years he had made discoveries that gave him a reputation with the learned throughout europe.

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　　无论何事，因愤怒而起，必以羞愧而终。
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
缺席者必是不对,出席者必有理由。
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
慈爱的人应给自己保留一些缺点，以免朋友自惭形秽。
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
知足者常乐，因为他永远不会失望。
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
这个世界上没有什么事情是确信无疑的，除了死亡和纳税。
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
英明的人不需要建议，愚蠢的人不采纳建议。
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
讲得很清楚，福格先生；你在用希腊语解释英语呢。
Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
谁会像你自己那样经常欺骗你？
Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
知足使贫穷的人富有；而贪婪使富足的人贫穷。
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
上帝治病，医生收费。
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
鱼放三天臭，客住三天嫌。
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
爱上自己的人没有竞争对手。
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
如果一个人倾其所有以求学问，那么这些学问是没有人能拿走的。
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
如果你想知道金钱的价值，不妨去借一些。
If you would know the value of money try to borrow some.
婚前张开眼,婚后半闭目。
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
如果再给我一次机会，我会毫不犹豫地重新度过我的此生，一切从头开始。只要求像作家那样，在修订版本的时候可以改正初版的某些错误。
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
演说家来了,带来了滔滔不绝的语言和点点滴滴的道理。
Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
相信金钱万能的人，往往会一切为了金钱。
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money