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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Before Guadalcanal the enemy advanced at his pleasure - after Guadalcanal he retreated at ours.
Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.
Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.
There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.
We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.
Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy.
Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.
Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.
If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.
Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.
Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.
Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.
I don't want my kids to grow up in a country where the press is called the enemy of the people.
To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.
Everybody has a God and believes that his God will deliver him and protect him from his enemies!
I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.
Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
When you don't forgive you permit your enemies to live rent free in your head -evict them today.
Do not allow the enemy of your soul to rob you of that unique quality God has breathed into you.
I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw.
But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
My father said to remember your enemies as well as your friends, and don't trust either of them.
Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.
Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.
After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.
If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.'
I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer.
In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!
It is certainly impossible to imagine forgiving the enemy while their animus remains undefeated.
No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
Christian love, which applies to all, even to one's enemies, is the worst adversary of Communism.
By using power, money, fraud, the enemy is interested in gaining control over the world of Islam.
Love thine enemies for the strengths they call up in us make them the instruments of our destiny.
I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
Strike the enemy's settlements, turn them into dust, pave the Arab roads with the skulls of Jews.
It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.
Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.
The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.
I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist.
If love is something you cherish, it is hard to glean much joy from death, even in one's enemies.