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"An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy coincided in the same person."
"But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless."
"Ignorance is an enemy, even to its owner. Knowledge is a friend, even to its hater. Ignorance hates knowledge because it is too pure. Knowledge fears ignorance because it is too sure."
"The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion"
"His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful."
"Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer."
"A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it."
"There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour of obeying the Prince imposed by an enemy in the hour of victory."
"Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally."
"The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies."
"Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence."
"My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults."
"The Nazgul they were; the Ringwraiths, the Enemy's most terribly servants; darkness went with them and they cried with the voices of death."
"It matters little who is the enemy, if we cannot beat off his attack."
"That man is rich indeed who has more friends than enemies, fears no one, and is so busy building that he has no time to devote to tearing down another's hopes and plans."
"Overcoming yourself is better than overcoming a million enemies in battle."
"In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression."
"Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]"
"After victory, you have more enemies."
"I play my enemies like a game of chess"
