Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Difficulty

• Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Sloth, Overcoming

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.7, Courier Corporation

• When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Arbitration, Compromise

• When circumstances don't fit our ideas they become our difficulties

  Benjamin Franklin

  Ideas, Fit, Circumstances

• All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Arbitration, Opinion

• The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Lying, Lust, Deceit

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.101, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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