Benjamin Franklin Virtue Quotations

Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.

Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee.

Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.

The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.

What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.

Virtues, of ... Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.

Virtues, of ... Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.

Dewey felt that since ideals are not perfectly attainable, they may demoralize students who try to measure up to them. The general tendency of reading good history must be to fix in the minds of youth deep impressions of the beauty and usefulness of virtue of all kinds, public spirit, fortitude, etc.

The excellency of hogs is fatness, of men virtue