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 and ships of war; and this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.
~ Aristophanes
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
~ Antisthenes
Whatever the number of a man’s friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Some men are more beholden to their bitterest enemies than to friends who appear to be sweetness itself. The former frequently tell the truth, but the latter never.
~ Cato
There is no little enemy.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The space in a needle’s eye is sufficient for two friends, but the whole world is scarcely big enough to hold two enemies.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
~ Thomas Jones
Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
~ La Rochefoucauld
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
~ John Henry Newman
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
~ J. Petitsenn
It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most dangerous.
~ Fernando Rojas
O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.
~ Saadi
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
~ Friedrich Schiller
If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.
~ The Bible, Proverbs 25:21
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