Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin .
Benjamin Franklin said this quote in a letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy
It's just written on finance books
If I'm not mistaken Ben Franklin said "In this world nothing can be said to be certain death and taxes"One of the most famous quotations by Benjamin Franklin is: "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." The source of this oft-cited quip is a letter Franklin wrote to French scientist Jean-Baptiste Leroy on November 13, 1789. Franklin wrote the letter in French, which he spoke, read and wrote fluently.
German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said, "The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!"
Ben Franklin's quote "but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes." ^ | | This statement is untrue. Although Benjamin Franklin DID state this in a letter to French physicist and writer, Jean- Baptiste Leroy. Daniel Defoe, in fact, said the statement, " Things as certain as death and taxes can be more firmly believed." Proving the above statement wrong.
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He actually said: "If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing."
Ben Franklin's quote "but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes." ^ | | This statement is untrue. Although Benjamin Franklin DID state this in a letter to French physicist and writer, Jean- Baptiste Leroy. Daniel Defoe, in fact, said the statement, " Things as certain as death and taxes can be more firmly believed." Proving the above statement wrong.
Benjamin Franklin is credited in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) with saying "...in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes" in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy dated 13 November 1789.
Almost. Franklin said, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes" in a 1789 letter reprinted in 1817 in a volume of his works.Others have made similar statements. The first known is by Daniel Defoe: "Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed." This from his book The Political History of the Devil, in 1726.