Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Injury

• Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Writing, Dust

• Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hate, Anger, 4th Of July

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.95, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• It is better to take many injuries than to give one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Giving, Injury, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

• We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse and even injury. The internal satisfaction of a good conscience is always present, and time will do us justice in the minds of the people, even those at present the most prejudiced against us.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Grateful, People, Justice

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.202

• Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Weakness, Use, Reputation

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.127, Applewood Books

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Justice, Benefits, Virtue

  Benjamin Franklin, Alan Houston (2004). “Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings on Politics, Economics, and Virtue”, p.69, Cambridge University Press

• 'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Revenge, Forgiving, Noble

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.211, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Revenge, Injury, Neglect

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.172, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• 1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution... perform without fail what you resolve. (5) Frugality... i.e. waste nothing. (6) Industry: Lose no time; be always employ'd... (7) Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently... (8) Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries... (9) Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting... (10) Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body... (11) Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles... (12) Chastity (13) Humility : Imitate Jesus.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Jesus, Humility, Thinking

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thinking, Virtue, Injury

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1850). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Published Verbatim from the Original Manuscript, by His Grandson, William Temple Franklin”, p.76

• Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Christianity, Injury, Command

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.15, Nayika Publishing

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