Deny Self for Self's sake

Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Topics: Self Interest Quotes

Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I...

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I...

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

Happy's the Wooing, that's not long a doing

Happy's the Wooing, that's not long a doing

Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.

Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

We may give advice but we cannot give conduct.

We may give advice but we cannot give conduct.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her...

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her...

One today is worth two tomorrows.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Drive thy business, let not that drive thee.

Drive thy business, let not that drive thee.

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in...

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in...

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.