Daily quote |
Benjamin FranklinIt is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow. It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture. It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. |