Enemies

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• The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
  • Aesop, 'The Eagle and the Arrow', Fables

• Never hate your enemies, it clouds you judgement.
  • Michael Corleone, The Godfather: part 2

• He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
  And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
  • Ali, A Hundred Sayings

• There is only one thing more useful in politics than having the right friends, and that is having the right enemies.
  • Anonymous, Economist 375: 8432 (June 25, 2005), p. 84

• I tell thee, be not rash; a golden bridge
  is for a flying enemy.
  • Lord Byron, The Deformed Transformed.

• A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.
  • John B. Gough, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 208.

• The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends.
  • Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, in Aphorism 84. (1647)

• We pray for our enemies; we seek to persuade those who hate us without cause to live conformably to the goodly precepts of Christ, that they may become partakers with us of the joyful hope of blessings from God, the Lord of all.
  • Justin Martyr, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 207.

• The only 'natural enemies' are those who take one’s very nature as an offence.
  • Simon May, English philosopher. The Little Book of Big Thoughts (2005)

• J'ai toujours fait une prière à Dieu, qui est fort courte. La voici: Mon Dieu, rendez nos ennemis bien ridicules! Dieu m'a exaucé.
  • I always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: "O Lord, make our enemies quite ridiculous!" God granted it.
  • Voltaire in a Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville (1767-05-16)

• A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
  • Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Ch. 1. (1891)

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• If you love your enemies, you won't have any.
  • Anonymous

• Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
  • Antisthenes, Greek philosopher

• You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
  • Winston Churchill

• I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!
  • Warren G. Harding

• Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
  • John F. Kennedy

• I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.
  • Abraham Lincoln

• Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
  • André Maurois

• Lord have mercy on my enemies, cause I sure as hell won't.
  • General George S. Patton

• My enemy is my teacher. From them I can learn patience and restraint.
  • Buddist proverb

• I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
  • Ann Richards

• The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
  • Mark Twain

• Keep your friends close, your enemies closer
  • Sun Tzu, Chinese general & military strategist

• Be a better person; make your enemies happy by giving them more reasons to hate you.
  • Shane O'Neill

• We can learn even from our enemies.
  • Ovid

• Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.
  • Unknown

• Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
  • Oscar Wilde

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