Franklin's famous sayings

1. If you do something you shouldn't do, you will feel something you don't want to have.

2. If a person is not diligent, there will be no glory.

3. Think about three things: where you come from, where you are going, and who you have to count on.

4. Teach your child to keep his mouth shut, and he will learn to speak quickly.

5. Those who can accept responsibility and make corrections accordingly are not far off, if not considered wise.

6. Be slow to make decisions when choosing friends, and be slow to make decisions when changing friends.

7. People who care about everything have neither good friends nor good relationships.

8. Lend money to an enemy and capture him; lend money to a friend and lose him.

9. Reading makes people enriched, thinking makes people deep, and dialogue makes people smart.

10. Give me a favor by rejecting me immediately.

11. Making promises makes it easy to make friends, but breaking promises makes enemies.

12. Drunkness, the worst of all shortcomings, turns some people into fools, some into beasts, and some into devils.

13. Losing a good wife is losing a gift from God.

14. Saving makes everything cheap, and wasting everything makes everything expensive.

15. When persuading people to talk about interests, don’t just talk about reason.

16. If you can forgive when you are hurt, you are noble; if you don’t care, you have courage. These are better than revenge.

17. Tolerance eliminates pain, while revenge increases pain.

18. Everyone complains about their poor memory, but they rarely review their wrong judgments.

19. Blessed are those who ask for nothing, because they will never be disappointed.

20. Honesty and diligence should be your eternal companions.

21. Interest blinds some people, but enlightens some people.

22. Let our grandparents enjoy their glory, and we must create our own.

23. Love your enemy, because he makes you understand your shortcomings.

24. Fire is the test of gold, gold is the test of women, and women are the test of men.

25. If you want to be a great man in a country, you may be disappointed; if you want to be a noble person, you may be successful; those who race against themselves are likely to succeed.

26. Only by giving what you have can you know what you have.

27. If you have intelligence and knowledge, add wisdom and humility.

28. Self-control and self-benefit.

29. Will is dominant at the age of twenty, wit at the age of thirty, and judgment at the age of forty.

30. Words can show people’s intelligence, but actions can show their true intentions.

31. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage and half-closed after marriage.

32. A piece of advice for young people: Choose the best way to live, and habits will make them extremely happy. But many people are anything but. Instead of making any life plans to achieve meaningful goals, they drift from one place to another, constantly changing.

33. People work harder to cover up mistakes than to correct them.

34. Fools need advice the most, but advice only works for smart people.

35 Doubt may not be wrong in itself, but it may be a big mistake to show it.

36. Don’t put off today’s matters until tomorrow.

37. It is useless to only understand the surface but not the essence.

38. Who can judge a person, his enemy is himself.

39. Smart and brave people dare to admit their mistakes.

40. Only those who are incompetent can play tricks.

41. Trouble comes from laziness, fatigue comes from leisure.

42. An upright person first experiences pain and then enjoys joy; a scoundrel enjoys joy first and then experiences pain.

43. Marriage is a voluntary contract that connects the two parties participating in it and pursues their common happiness and joy.

44. Only those who fall in love with themselves will not have a love rival.

45. Sudden rights can easily make people proud, and sudden freedom can easily make people reckless. Good behavior must be developed slowly.

46. God gives everything to diligence.

47. If you don’t listen to someone who speaks rationally, she will slap you in the face to force you to listen.

48. Being too obedient to others actually means you are in trouble with yourself.

49. Misfortune and luck are both touchstones of integrity.

50. Conceit is a tree that only flowers but does not bear fruit.

51. Illegitimate gains are the real losses.

52. Brave men and wise men have sympathy and understanding, while cowards and fools have no mercy.

53. If people want to realize their ordinary wishes, they must first cause double the trouble.

54. Only when you are amiable can you be loved by others.

55. There is power behind reason.

56. Give happiness and get happiness.

57. Some people are lazy in their hearts, and some are lazy in their bodies.

58. No work, no gain.

59. Sometimes you have to open your eyes to see things in the world, and sometimes you have to pretend not to see them.

60. Let your dissatisfaction be a secret.

61. A little knowledge gained from lessons is better than a lot of knowledge handed over by books.

62. Be patient and have everything.

63. Don’t seek to live long, but seek to live well.

64. The biggest stupidity is to show off your intelligence too much.

65. If *** drives, let reason hold the reins.

66. Don’t underestimate writing and calculation. These useful skills you acquire when you are young will definitely create your future success.

67. Money does not belong to the person who owns it, but only to those who enjoy it.

68. Bad habits know that they are really ugly, so they often wear masks.

69. If so. Be open-minded: Don't be upset and pessimistic about unpleasant trivial matters.

70. I have never seen a person who gets up early, is diligent, cautious, and honest complains about a bad fate; good character, good habits, and a strong will will not be defeated by the so-called fate. .

71. Quarrel is a game played by people. Yet it is a strange game that neither side has ever won.

72. A standing farmer is nobler than a kneeling gentleman.

73. People are not changed through thoughts, but through behaviors.

Franklin's thirteen moral qualities are:

1. Temperance: not eating enough and not drinking too much.

⑴Temperance: Eat not too dullness; drink not too elevation.

2. Silence: Avoid empty talk, words must be beneficial to yourself or others.

　⑵Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

3. Order: You should know where to put things and when to do things.

　⑶Order: Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

4. Determination: You must do what you have to do, and do it well.

　⑷Resolution: Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.

5. Frugality: Use money only when it is beneficial to others or yourself, and never waste it.

⑸Frugality: Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i. e. , waste nothing.

6. Diligence: Cherish time, do useful things, and avoid unnecessary actions.

⑹Industry: Lose no time; be always employ＇＇d in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.

7. Sincerity: do not deceive, have conscience, be kind, and speak truthfully.

　⑺Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

8. Justice: Do not do things that are not beneficial to others, and do not evade your obligations.

⑻Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.

9. Moderation: Avoid going to extremes, tolerate the harm caused to you by others, and think that it is something you should bear.

⑼Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

10. Neatness: Keep your body, clothes and residence clean.

⑽Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.

11. Calm down: Don’t panic about small things, ordinary things, or inevitable things.

　⑾Tranquility: Be not distuibed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.

12. Abstinence: Have sex less often, unless you consider your health or the continuation of your children; do not have sex excessively, hurting your body or harming your own or others' peace and reputation.

　⑿Chastity: Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dulness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another＇＇s peace or reputation.

13. Humility: imitate Jesus and Socrates.

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　⒀Humility: Imitate Jesus and Socrates.