If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.

Better to have an enemy who slaps you in the face than a friend who stabs you in the back.

People, please remember that I choose my words very carefully. Assumptions are your enemy.

It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

It’s sad when friends become enemies. But what’s even worse is when they become strangers.

I will build my empire next to the sea, so I can laugh from my throne as my enemies drown.

A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway

Our enemies are a radical network of terrorists - and every government that supports them.

Why should I not hate mine enemies―if I "love" them does that not place me at their mercy?

King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are."

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.

More people have been ruined by their upright friends than ever have been by their enemies!

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.

When we understand the needs that motivate our own and others behavior, we have no enemies.

A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace

The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things.

There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.

We don't criticize. Criticism is an enemy. You've got to make loving, positive suggestions.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.

One person's enemy is another person's best friend. My favorite food might give you a rash.

You should forgive your enemies and if you haven't any, just forgive a few of your friends.

We are for peace, but we accept the challenge of the enemy. We will protect our motherland.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.

We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you.

Anything God does, the enemy tries to counterfeit. We have to be on guard against the enemy!

I lost everything when they put us in prison. I was an enemy alien, a man without a country.

A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.

The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.

The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies.

The great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil.

China is not an economic enemy or existential national security threat to the United States.

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.

Adam gave me a scandalized look. "Fraternizing with the enemy!" he cried. "For shame, wench!

Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend.

If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.

The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

If you want an enemy, the soul (nafs) is sufficient. If you want advice, death is sufficient.

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