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Enemies Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “Both men felt uncomfortable. Each knew the other understood him. That kind of knowledge is agreeable for friends, and for enemies very disagreeable, especially when they can’t either have it out or separate.”

Ivan Turgenev

Friendship, Tension, Understanding, Enemies, Unspoken

2. “The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they’re dead is the nasty things I’ve said about them.”

Camille Paglia

Enemies, Legacy, Revenge, Memory, Conflict

3. “In order to rally people, governments need enemies, if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Governments, Enemies, Power, Manipulation, Politics

4. “We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.”

Pythagoras

Friendship, Enemies, Behavior, Wisdom, Harmony

5. “Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.”

Plutarch

Wisdom, Enemies, Strategy, Adaptability, Strength

6. “Wicked ones are like fire. Even if put on heat, they burn only. They do not leave unhurt even their well-wishers and benefactors.”

Chanakya

Evil, Betrayal, Danger, Caution, Enemies

7. “Everybody tries not to reveal his weaknesses, so that he may not be ridiculed. Especially before the enemy. One’s weak points should not be revealed. Because one can strike on those to ruin us. So one should remain strong before the enemy.”

Chanakya

Strategy, Strength, Enemies, Wisdom, Caution

8. “Till the enemy’s weakness is known, he should be kept on friendly terms.”

Chanakya

Strategy, Caution, Enemies, Patience, Deception

9. “Enemies strike at weak points.”

Chanakya

Enemies, Strategy, Weakness, Caution, Awareness

10. “A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”

Stendhal

Wisdom, Enemies, Strategy, Intelligence, Experience

11. “Think again, Electra. Don’t say anymore. Don’t you see what you’re doing? You make your own pain. Why keep wounding yourself? With so much evil stored up in that cold dark soul of yours you breed enemies everywhere you touch.”

Sophocles

Think, Pain, Wounding, Enemies, Soul

12. “This is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.”

Sophocles

True, Saying, Gifts, Enemies, Ruin

13. “Isn’t it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?”

Sophocles

Sweetest, Mockery, Enemies, Revenge, Irony

14. “Enemies’ gifts are no gifts and do no good.”

Sophocles

Enemies, Gifts, Deception, Mistrust, Intentions

15. “You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.”

Gustave Flaubert

Worth, Enemies, Art, Criticism, Influence

16. “Even a paranoid can have enemies.”

Henry Kissinger

Paranoia, Enemies, Fear, Perception, Psychology

17. “The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence.”

Henry Kissinger

Enemies, Respect, Leadership, Decision-Making, Integrity

18. “You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, ‘There is a price we will not pay.’ There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning of the phrase ‘Peace through strength.’”

Ronald Reagan

Courage, Enemies, Strength, Peace, Resolve

19. “Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy's enemies have refined their instruments of repression.”

Ronald Reagan

Optimism, Democracy, Enemies, Repression, Politics

20. “Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.”

Charles Spurgeon

Self-Reflection, Enemies, Faith, Strength, Caution

21. “The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.”

Charles Spurgeon

Enemies, Faith, Christ, Spirituality, Struggle

22. “It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.”

George Washington

Enemies, Friends, Easy, Human Relations, Wise Conduct

23. “If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies. Succeed anyway.”

Mother Teresa

Success, Friendship, Enemies, Perseverance, Integrity

24. “Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one’s enemies we need divine love.”

Leo Tolstoy

Love, Enemies, Humanity, Divine, Compassion

25. “Every true work of God has had its bitter enemies – not only outside, but also inside – just as in the days of Nehemiah.”

Dwight L. Moody

Faith, Perseverance, Trials, Enemies, God’s Work

26. “What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?”

Nepolian Bonaparte

Enemies, Peace, Destruction, Disarmament, Strategy

27. “Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.”

Nepolian Bonaparte

Strangers, Friends, Happen, Faithful, Enemies

28. “Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies.”

Nepolian Bonaparte

Friends, Enemies, Caution, Trust, Foresight

29. “Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one’s friends with the idea that they may turn into one’s enemies. He should have said, with everyone.”

Nepolian Bonaparte

Friends, Enemies, Trust, Relationships, Deception

30. “The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.”

Nepolian Bonaparte

Enemies, Power, Consistency, Generosity, Rivalry

31. “My enemies make appointments at my tomb.”

Nepolian Bonaparte

Legacy, Power, Enemies, History, Vengeance

32. “As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.”

Diogenes

Friendship, Enemies, Wisdom, Growth, Learning

33. “The idea that women are ‘our own worst enemies’ forces us to admit that we don’t have the power to be, even if we wanted to.”

Gloria Steinem

Women, Power, Enemies, Gender, Empowerment

34. “Doors are for those who lack enemies.”

Suzanne Collins

Doors, Lack, Enemies, Constant Danger, No Escape

35. “I have written on all sorts of subjects. Yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.”

David Hume

Writing, Controversy, Enemies, Politics, Religion

36. “You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.”

Blaise Pascal

Religion, Corruption, Friends, Enemies, Faith

37. “Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.”

Blaise Pascal

Jesus, Enemies, Self, Spirituality, Wisdom

38. “United you will be more than a match for your enemies. But if you quarrel and separate, your weakness will put you at the mercy of those who attack you.”

Aesop

Unity, Enemies, Weakness, Strength, Division

39. “You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.”

Aesop

Injury, Enemies, Self, Despicable, Distraction

40. “The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle’s own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.”

Aesop

Arrow, Eagle, Destruction, Enemies, Consequences

41. “The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.”

Aesop

Quarrels, Friends, Opportunity, Enemies, Conflict

42. “We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.”

Aesop

Enemies, Destruction, Means, Self-sabotage, Conflict

43. “To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim.”

Thomas Paine

Enemies, Friends, Politics, Morality, Strategy

44. “Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.”

Thomas Paine

Enemies, Fight, Inner, Struggle, Greatest

45. “It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.”

Thomas Paine

Enemies, Maxims, Mistakes, Reason, Gained Wisdom

46. “I love to remember my enemies and I love to get my enemies. I had some enemies. I had people that really I helped a lot. And when I needed the help, in some cases, they were not there for me.”

Donald Trump

Enemies, Help, Revenge, Relationships, Memory

47. “Those who would wage war, should first eliminate all domestic enemies before proceeding to attack the external foe.”

Sun Tzu

War, Domestic, Enemies, External, Strategy

48. “Keep their friends close and their enemies closer.”

Sun Tzu

Friends, Enemies, Strategy, Trust, Relationships

49. “People care far more about their enemies than about their trade partners. For every American film about Taiwan, there are probably fifty about Vietnam.”

Yuval Noah Harari

Enemies, Trade, Culture, Media Representation, Societal Values

50. “We love those who hate our enemies, and if we had no enemies there would be very few people whom we should love.”

Bertrand Russell

Love, Enemies, Relationships, Human Nature, Conflict

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