Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievious ones.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be absolutely necessary to maintain… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad… — 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
I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great.… — 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
Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. — 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
