The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly. — Benjamin Franklin Faces Copy Share Image
“The trouble with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest. — Benjamin Franklin Providence Copy Share Image
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. — Benjamin Franklin Injustice Copy Share Image
He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not — Benjamin Franklin Anger Copy Share Image
Virtues, of ... Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Arguing is a game that two can play at. But it is a strange game in that neither opponent ever wins. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Again, He that sells upon Credit, asks a Price for what he sells, equivalent to the Principal and Interest of his Money… — Benjamin Franklin Money Copy Share Image
The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that… — Benjamin Franklin Life Copy Share Image
We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport. — Benjamin Franklin Absolutes Copy Share Image
It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever… — Benjamin Franklin Atheism Copy Share Image
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and… — Benjamin Franklin Ambition Copy Share Image
He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure; the rest always say… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and… — Benjamin Franklin Career Copy Share Image
I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension… — Benjamin Franklin Apprehension Copy Share Image
“I do not pretend to give such a sum; I only lend it to you. When you shall return to your country… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If we look back in history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find a few that have… — Benjamin Franklin Bishops Copy Share Image
Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . .… — Benjamin Franklin Atheist Copy Share Image
On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of… — Benjamin Franklin Ambitious Copy Share Image
The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade. — Benjamin Franklin Best investment Copy Share Image
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