I destroy my enemy when  I make him my friend.  Abraham Lincoln   There is no little enemy.  •Benjamin Franklin    The friend of my enemy is my enemy.  •Anonymous     With friends like this, who needs enemies?  •Henny Youngman     It is impossible for one person to know another so well that  he can dispense with belief.  •Friedrich Durrenmatt     The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.  •Aesop     The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.  •Sam Levenson    It is easier to forgive an enemy  than to forgive a friend.  •William Blake    He hasn't an enemy in the world -  but all his friends hate him.  •Eddie Cantor    You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the  means he uses to frighten you.  •Eric Hoffer    I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who  doesn't dare to make an enemy  should get out of the business.  •Bette Davis    It is hard to fight an enemy who  has outposts in your head.  •Sally Kempton    We learn our virtues from our friends  who love us; our faults from the  enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.  •Ricther    Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work.  •Anonymous    Enemies promises were made to be broken. •Aesop     The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts. •William Ellery Channing     You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. •Joseph Conrad     Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards. •R A Dickson     I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people. •Benjamin Franklin     A wise man learns more from his enemies  than a fool from his friends. •Baltasar Gracian     I have no trouble with my enemies.  I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights! •Warren Gamaliel Harding     Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him. •Ernest Jones     Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. •John F. Kennedy     Only enemies speak the truth.  Friends and lovers lie endlessly,  caught in the web of duty. •Stephen King     Our enemies come nearer the truth in  the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves. •Francois De La Rochefoucauld     There is no stronger bond of friendship  than a mutual enemy. •Frankfort Moore     He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the  preservation of the enemy's life. •Friedrich Nietzsche     Bear patiently with a rival. •Ovid     Talk well of your friends and  of your enemies say nothing. •Proverb     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. •Dante Gabriel Rossetti     Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy. •N. F. Simpson     Convince an enemy, convince him  that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple  act of faith, reason over might. To  blow up his children  would only prove him right. •Gordon Sumner     One enemy can do more hurt  than ten friends can do good. •Jonathan Swift     In my life, I have prayed but one  prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies  ridiculous. And God granted it.
 — Benjamin Franklin
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