Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Enemies

• The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Positive, Forgiveness, Respect

• Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Winning, Enemy

• Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Leadership, Wise

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.38, Courier Corporation

• Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Relationship, Friends

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.43, Courier Corporation

• Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Enemy, Fear God, Poor Richard

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

• I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Jealous, Rights

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

• I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Government, Enemy, Arbitrary

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757”, p.80, Regnery Publishing

• The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Wise, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.170, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Commitment, Keeping Promises, Broken Promises

  "Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom".

• Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Enemy, Speak, Ill

  "The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living".

• There is no little enemy

  Benjamin Franklin

  Enemy, Littles

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.388

• You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Long, History

  Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin (2005). “The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.109, Regnery Publishing

• It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being... Almighty God would mercifully interpose and still the rage of war among the nations... He would take this province under His protection, confound the designs and defeat the attempts of its enemies, and unite our hearts and strengthen our hands in every undertaking that may be for the public good, and for our defense and security in this time of danger.

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Heart, Hands

• I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eye, People, Enemy

• If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Keeping Secrets, Enemy

  "The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac".

• Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Enemy, Gains, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (1849). “Poor Richard's almanac for 1850-52”, p.35

• If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self

  Benjamin Franklin

  Self, Enemy, Ifs

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.20, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends"

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hate, Love You, Mean

• Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend,
  but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Enemy, May, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.50, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

• Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Best Friend, Money, Enemy

• Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Judging, Enemy

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.204, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Enemy, Be Good, Thyself

  Benjamin Franklin (1945). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”

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