“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
Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. — 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
Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude, or they would not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. — 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
I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair… — 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
