If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read.
Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them.
There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.
To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat.
To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.
When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.
Do not marry the enemy of your excitement.
Give the enemy an inch, hell take a yard.
The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
I am not anyone's enemy.
The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of 'how to do'. The salvation of photography comes from the experiment.
The Lord spoke to me and said, He is coming as the Ancient of Days and because He is the Ancient of Days there is an ancient key that He carries. And in the carrying of this key you have seen the enemy take his place between you and the promise at this level.
I was struggling against corruption and the only thing. . . my only weapon was to put the truth in the medias and of course it made me win lots of enemies that didn't want me to just denounce what was happening.
Whoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.
She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer. When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once. He could find food, and show her how to reach Oxford, and those were powers that were useful, but he might still have been untrustworthy or cowardly. A murderer was a worthy companion. She felt as safe with him as she'd done with Iorek Byrnison the armoured bear.
It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence. The only safe way to overcome an enemy is to make of that enemy a friend.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
