In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable. — Benjamin Franklin Great men 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 Better man Copy Share Image
Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly. — Benjamin Franklin Deceit Copy Share Image
“Work while it is called today for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic. — Benjamin Franklin Conservative Copy Share Image
The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit. — Benjamin Franklin Goodness Copy Share Image
Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. When it comes to investing, nothing will pay off more than educating yourself. Do… — Benjamin Franklin Analysis Copy Share Image
All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be… — Benjamin Franklin Body Copy Share Image
One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not… — 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 Health Copy Share Image
My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my… — Benjamin Franklin Age Copy Share Image
“I have already made this paper too long, for which I must crave pardon, not having now time to make it shorter.” — Benjamin Franklin Brevity Copy Share Image
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even… — Benjamin Franklin Change Copy Share Image
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and… — Benjamin Franklin Amendments Copy Share Image
As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an… — Benjamin Franklin Analytics Copy Share Image
“discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments or explications of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all to me very dry,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of… — Benjamin Franklin Affair Copy Share Image
In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor,… — 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… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . .… — Benjamin Franklin Accumulation Copy Share Image
History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius… — Benjamin Franklin Affection Copy Share Image
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