Their 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
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. — Dean Acheson
It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to… — Gary Busey
These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who overcome their enemies without strife.… — Laozi
When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace. — Saint Augustine
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies. — Baltasar Gracian
The wise learn many things from their enemies. — Aristophanes
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own. — John Dryden
Everyone is curious about the intentions of their enemies. — Jung Woo
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have… — Edmund Burke
You're mistaken; men of sense often learn much from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learnt from a friend: but… — Aristophanes
In general, the men of lower intelligence won out. Afraid of their own shortcomings and of the intelligence of their opponents, so that they would… — Thucydides
He was a martyr of peace but was the victim of hate. If people can't let go of the hatred of their enemies they risk… — William J. Clinton
Christians appeal to those who wrong them and make them friendly to themselves; they are eager to do good to their enemies; they are mild… — Aristides of Athens
Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends. — Plato
The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends. — Honore de Balzac
The characteristic place to find Christians is among their enemies. The first place to look for Christ is in Hell. — William Stringfellow
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core… — Roy Blount, Jr.
Sooner or later we all must die. Warriors choose to do so on their feet, standing between their enemies and those they hold dear. With… — David Gell

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