Virtue Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

— Benjamin Franklin

Laws without morals are in vain.

— Benjamin Franklin

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.

— Benjamin Franklin

Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee.

— Benjamin Franklin

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

— Benjamin Franklin

Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.

— Benjamin Franklin

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

— Benjamin Franklin

The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.

— Benjamin Franklin

God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.

— Benjamin Franklin

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

— Benjamin Franklin

Virtues, of ... Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

— Benjamin Franklin

Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

— Benjamin Franklin

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

— Benjamin Franklin

Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.

— Benjamin Franklin

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

— Benjamin Franklin

Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.

— Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people…

— Benjamin Franklin

Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man…

— Benjamin Franklin

I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her…

— Benjamin Franklin

Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the…

— Benjamin Franklin

Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair…

— Benjamin Franklin

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are…

— Benjamin Franklin

I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in…

— Benjamin Franklin

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that…

— Benjamin Franklin

That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he might be worshipped…

— Benjamin Franklin

“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it,…

— Benjamin Franklin

I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations…

— Benjamin Franklin

“I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude, or they would not…

— Benjamin Franklin

If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred…

— Benjamin Franklin

Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But…

— Benjamin Franklin

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

"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an…

— Benjamin Franklin

“I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that he made the world, and governed it by his providence; that…

— Benjamin Franklin

Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.

— Benjamin Franklin

“He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

— Benjamin Franklin

What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.

— Benjamin Franklin

Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.

— Benjamin Franklin

Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues

— Benjamin Franklin

Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask.

— Benjamin Franklin