If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There are 3 faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude, or they would not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Promises may fit the friends, but non performance will turn them into enemies. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“We sometimes disputed, and very fond we were of argument, and very desirous of confuting one another, which disputatious turn, by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The best time to make friends is before you need them. Ether Barrymore — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If you want to keep a secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . .… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
He that sells upon trust, loses many friends, and always wants money. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Remember this saying, The good payer is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends" — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
![“My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . . If it had not been for the justice of our cause, and the consequent interposition of Providence, in which we had faith, we must have been ruined. If I had ever before been an atheist…” quote by Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7fe/benjamin-franklin-65_atheist_my-dear-friend-do-not-imagine-that-i-am_1638238.jpg)
