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"There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who does not feel friendship towards himself is a public enemy, and he who finds no confidant within himself will die of despair. For life streams out of man's inner self and in no way from what surrounds him."
"Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in command of the capturing force do cause him to be immediately executed by hanging."
"It's always better to feed your enemies than to fight with them."
"The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism (the claim that God is known)."
"The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us."
"Everything is interconnected. My interest is linked to everyone else's. Our survival and future are linked. Therefore the destruction of your so-called enemy is actually the destruction of your self."
"Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is."
"Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends."
"He made enemies as naturally as soap makes suds."
"Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy."
"It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man."
"To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege."
"Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?"
"Glance is the enemy of vision."
"Beware of the man who has no enemies."
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
"Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies; Nay, who but infants question in such wise, twas one of my most intimate enemies."
"Just because somebody happens to disagree with you about something doesn't mean that they become your mortal enemy and that you should try to destroy them and destroy their life and destroy their family."
"No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius."
"I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power."
