quotations about enemies
It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
"Of the Affections", Les Caractères
A man with no enemies is a man with no character.
PAUL NEWMAN
Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures
I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.
ALAN BRADLEY
The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag
Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.
PLATO
Lysis
Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Aphorisms on Love and Hate
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.
HOWARD TAYLOR
The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
Beware of meat twice boil'd, and an old foe reconcil'd.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1733