Enemy Quote by Tacitus Download Open image “Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]” — Tacitus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Enemy Flatterer Flattery Kind Worst
Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who seek your… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals? — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Fear is a man's worst enemy, but love is a man's most powerful weapon against anything. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
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