Benjamin Franklin Virtue Quotations

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee.

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

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

Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

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

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