Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Keep conscience clear, then never fear.

Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.

Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

Hunger never saw bad bread.

A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.

A full Belly brings forth every Evil.

If you desire many things many things will seem but a few.

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

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

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

Where liberty is, there is my country.