Benjamin franklin biography childhood quotes

“Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1756

“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1739

“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
-Letter to Sir Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London, July 1783.

Also cited in a letter to Quincy, Sr., American merchant, planter and politician, September 1783.

“He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1733

“Better slip with foot than tongue.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1734

“Look before, or you’ll find yourself behind.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1735

“Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1736

“He that would live in peace & at ease, Must not speak all he knows or judge all he sees.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1736

“Well done is better than well said.”
- Poor R