Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution...… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Virtues, of ... Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Virtues, of ... Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury. — 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 Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — 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
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
