Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
Benjamin Franklin
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
Autobiographer
Chess Player
Designer
Dilettante
Diplomat
Economist
Editor
Freemason
Inventor
Journalist
Librarian
Musician
Physicist
Boston
Massachusetts
Silence Dogood
Ben Franklin
The First American
Franklin
Poor Richard
Purchase
Sell
Sells
Wealth
Virtue
Liberty
Power
More quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Stand firm, don't flutter!
Benjamin Franklin
There is no little enemy
Benjamin Franklin
The best is the cheapest.
Benjamin Franklin
The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.
Benjamin Franklin
Great talkers are little doers.
Benjamin Franklin
My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.
Benjamin Franklin
A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
Benjamin Franklin
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin
He that cannot obey, cannot command.
Benjamin Franklin
When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.
Benjamin Franklin
Do well by doing good.
Benjamin Franklin
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.
Benjamin Franklin
My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.
Benjamin Franklin
You will discover 3 trustworthy mates, an aged wife, an aged canine, and ready dollars.
Benjamin Franklin
Without justice, courage is weak.
Benjamin Franklin
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Benjamin Franklin
Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.
Benjamin Franklin
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy
Benjamin Franklin