Enemies Quotes
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls…
— Aristophanes
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
— Aristotle
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No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
— Francis of Assisi
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No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
— Dean Acheson
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Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
— Alec Baldwin
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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
— Honore de Balzac
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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former…
— Honore de Balzac
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
— Edward Abbey
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
— Joseph Addison
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An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
— Konrad Adenauer
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
— Buffalo Bill
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the…
— Hugo Black
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
— William Blake
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If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy…
— Cate Blanchett
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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.
— Arthur Bloch
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A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet…
— Aesop
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We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In fact, to cave…
— Michael Bloomberg
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We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
— Aesop
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