Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Contentment

• Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, Powerful

  Benjamin Franklin (193?). “The life and letters”

• Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Secret, Contentment, World

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.87, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Contentment, Rich, Poor

• Who is wise?
  He that learns from everyone.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, Contentment

  Benjamin Franklin (1976). “Poor Richard: An Almanack”, David McKay Company

• Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Fire, Clothes

• Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Contentment, Together, Riches

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.108, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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