Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Neighbors

• Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.98, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Cheating, Real

  Benjamin Franklin (1819). “Memoirs of the life and writings of B.F. ...”, p.60

• The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Hypocrite, Heart

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.82, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Pride, Government

• Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Pain, Character, Despair

  Benjamin Franklin (1848). “The works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of essays, humorous, moral, and literary: with his life, written by himself”, p.209, S. Andrus

• Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Justice, Citizens, Neighbor

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.177

• Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Glasses, Stones, Window

  Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

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