Enemy Quotes

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Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy. — Mahatma Gandhi
Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies. — Baltasar Gracian
I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things.....… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Man has not a greater enemy than himself. — Petrarch
MY THEORY: the trouble is in the mind, for the body is only the house for the mind to dwell in . . . If… — Phineas Quimby
To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would… — Henry David Thoreau
The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land, we should soon see a… — Charles Spurgeon
A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness… — Learned Hand
I want to be a more serious-minded Christian, more detached from this world, more ready for heaven than I have ever been in my whole… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The only enemy of art is taste. — Thomas Hoving
God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia. — Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about. — Mignon McLaughlin
Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. Get to your knees and cry for help, and… — Charles Spurgeon
The enemy is stupid: he believes that the enemy is us, even though it's him! — Pierre Desproges
We swear we are not going to abandon the struggle until the Last Jew in Europe has been exterminated and is actually dead. It is… — Robert Ley
Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched privilege. He is a pleasant man… — Walter Lippmann

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