Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Benjamin FranklinTag: inspirational
I am apprehensive, therefore - perhaps too apprehensive - that the Government of these States may in futures times end in a monarchy. But this catastrophe, I think, may be long delayed, if in our proposed system we do not sow the seeds of contention, faction, and tumult, by making our posts of honor places of profit.
Benjamin FranklinA perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
Benjamin FranklinTag: character perfection flaws
Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
Benjamin FranklinI do not find that I grow any older. Being arrived at seventy, and considering that by traveling further in the same road I should probably be led to the grave, I stopped short, turned about, and walked back again; which having done these four years, you may now call me sixty-six. Advise those old friends of ours to follow my example; keep up your spirits, and that will keep up your bodies.
Benjamin FranklinWise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Benjamin FranklinIf you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rottin', either write things width reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin FranklinWe must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin FranklinTag: american-revolution
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So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do
Benjamin FranklinIn reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself. You see it perhaps often in this History. For even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my Humility.
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