Friends and enemies Quote by Anonymous

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces pent up within him

— Ernest A Jones

Therefore the best fortress is to be found in the love of the people, for although you may have fortresses they will not save…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

— Edward Coke

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

— Andrew Lang

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.

— Ernest Jones

Just as the commander of an army pitches his camp, studies the strength and defenses of a fortress, and then attacks it on its…

— Ignatius of Loyola

Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.

— Plutarch

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

— Socrates

A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten…

— Susan Hill

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

— Louis XIV

“Defense mechanisms protect us. Fortresses isolate us. And far too often we begin with the former and end up constructing the latter.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough