Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"Radiate boundless love towards the entire world - above, below, and across - unhindered, without ill will, without enmity."
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Enmity
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Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity."
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference."
Robert Frost
Poet
"The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security."
Laozi
Philosopher
"Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small."
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"Opposition is not necessarily enmity."
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"i understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. i understood that, finally and absolutely, i alone exist. all the rest, i saw, is merely what pushes me, or what i push against, blindly - as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. i create the whole universe, blink by blink."
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"Americans and Englishmen, when they become acquainted with the Balkans, feel an astonished contempt when they study the mutual enmities of Bulgarians and Serbs, of Hungarians and Rumanians. It is evident to them that these enmities are absurd and that the belief of each little nation in its own superiority has no objective basis. But most of them are quite unable to see that the national pride of a Great Power is essentially as unjustifiable as that of a little Balkan country."
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"Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled."
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"Do nondoing, strive for nonstriving, savor the flavorless, regard the small as important, make much of little, repay enmity with virtue; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small. The most difficult things in the world must be done while they are easy; the greatest things in the world must be done while they are small."
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"Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge."
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"I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world"
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"Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it."
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"Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones."
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"Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification."
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"Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods."
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"The good are like one another, and friends to one another; and ... the bad, as is often said of them, are never at unity with one another or with themselves, but are passionate and restless: and that which is at variance and enmity with itself is not likely to be in union or harmony with any other thing."
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"We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good."
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"I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope."
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"War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity."
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"Because of their enmity you will be left alone. They will cast you out and forsake you."
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"I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity Nor had I time to love: but since Some industry must be, The little toil of love, I thought, Was large enough for me."
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"We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love"
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"It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities."
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"Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing."
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