You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I believe that Man is not the most perfect Being but One, rather that as there are many Degrees of Beings his… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There remain a few people in NASA who are there to accomplish great things; but most of NASA now consists of the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, creator of the Universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he might be worshipped… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it? — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If you ride a horse, sit close and tight, if you ride a man, sit easy and light. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
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