"For having lived long, I have experienced..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.”

“Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge.”

“If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.”

“Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.”

“He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.”

“Those experienced in work must take up the study of theory and must read seriously; only then will they be able to systematize and synthesize their experience and raise it to the level of theory, only then will they not mistake their partial experience for universal truth and not commit empiricist errors.”

“Life, in both its knowing and its doing, has become today a "free fall," so to say, into the next minute, into the future. So that, whereas, formerly, those not wishing to hazard the adventure of an individual life could rest within the pale of a comfortably guaranteed social order, today all the walls have burst. It is not left to us to chooseto hazard the adventure of an unprecedented life: adventure is upon us, like a tidal wave.”

“Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.”

“Improving your life doesn’t have to be about changing everything – it’s about making changes that count.”