Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
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
Happy
Studious
Frugal
Frugality
Industrious
Virtuous
General
Virtue
Happiness
More quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.
Benjamin Franklin
Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.
Benjamin Franklin
O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.
Benjamin Franklin
He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.
Benjamin Franklin
A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all.
Benjamin Franklin
A place for everything, everything in its place.
Benjamin Franklin
Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.
Benjamin Franklin
If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it.
Benjamin Franklin
Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.
Benjamin Franklin
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin
Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.
Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost for want of a shoe, the horse was lost for want of a horse, the battle was lost for want of the battle, the war was lost.
Benjamin Franklin
If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
Benjamin Franklin
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin
The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.
Benjamin Franklin
An investment in education always pays the highest returns.
Benjamin Franklin
He does not possess wealth it possesses him.
Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
Benjamin Franklin
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.
Benjamin Franklin
