Quotes by Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should — Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there w — Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of 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, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firml — Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being — Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yoursel — Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
O vitae Philosophia dux! O virtutum indagatrix expultrixque vitiorum! Unus dies, bene et ex praeceptis tuis actus, pecca — Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
[I retained] only the Habit of expressing my self in Terms of modest Diffidence, never using when I advance any thing th — Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin