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title: "8 Vice Quotes By Benjamin Franklin"
description: "8 Vice quotes by Benjamin Franklin. Plus more from Benjamin Franklin and more Vice sayings from other authors."
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> [Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her maskVice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/vice-knows-she-s-ugly-so-puts-on-her-maskvice-knows-she-s-ugly-so/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

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> [Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/search-others-for-their-virtues-thy-self-for-thy-vices/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

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> [To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/to-be-proud-of-virtue-is-to-poison-yourself-with-the-antidote/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

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> [Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/vice-knows-she-is-ugly-so-puts-on-her-mask/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

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> [Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/avoid-dishonest-gain-no-price-can-recompence-the-pangs-of-vice/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

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> [ Vice knows \[its\] ugly, so \[it\] puts on \[a\] mask. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/vice-knows-its-ugly-so-it-puts-on-a-mask/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

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> [What maintains one vice would bring up two children.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/what-maintains-one-vice-would-bring-up-two-children/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

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> [Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/virtue-may-not-always-make-a-face-handsome-but-vice-will-certainly/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

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## Other authors on Vice

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-francois-de-la-rochefoucauld-146.jpg) François De La Rochefoucauld 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vice/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-shane-smith-84380.jpg) Shane Smith 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vice/shane-smith/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-john-steinbeck-52314.jpg) John Steinbeck 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vice/john-steinbeck/)
- [Samuel Johnson 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vice/samuel-johnson/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b002/author-nancy-dubuc-4225.jpg) Nancy Dubuc 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vice/nancy-dubuc/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-juvenal-54721.jpg) Juvenal 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vice/juvenal/)

## More by Benjamin Franklin

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/before-noah-men-having-only-water-to-drink-could-not-find-the-truth/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

> [Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/think-of-these-things-whence-you-came-where-you-are-going-and-to-whom/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

> [“Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/give-me-26-lead-soldiers-and-i-will-conquer-the-world/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

> [Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/flowers-are-the-alphabet-of-angels-whereby-they-write-on-the-hills/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

> [In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/in-the-affairs-of-this-world-men-are-saved-not-by-faith-but-by-the/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

> [By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/by-heaven-we-understand-a-state-of-happiness-infinite-in-degree-and/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

> [I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/i-have-thought-that-wild-flowers-might-be-the-alphabet-of-angels/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

> [How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/how-do-you-become-better-tomorrow-by-improving-yourself-the-world-is/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

> [Little leaks sink the ship.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/little-leaks-sink-the-ship/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

> [Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/who-is-rich-he-that-is-content-who-is-that-nobody/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

> [“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/but-on-the-whole-though-i-never-arrived-at-the-perfection-i-had-been/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

> [The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/the-good-particular-men-may-do-separately-in-relieving-the-sick-is/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

> [Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/love-your-neighbour-yet-don-t-pull-down-your-hedge/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

> [Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/take-counsel-in-wine-but-resolve-afterwards-in-water/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

> [He that's secure is not safe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/he-that-s-secure-is-not-safe/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

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