We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“And, lastly (I may as well confess it, since my denial of it will be believed by nobody), perhaps I shall a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride.… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“There is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Beat it down, stifle it, mortify it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it. — 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
