Diogenes Quotes
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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Let my enemies devour each other.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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President Reagan has no enemies in the Phillipines.
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An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
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Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
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The great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil.
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To the confusion of our enemies.
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I have no enemies and no hatred.
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Reading was a way to make friends or enemies, a way to discover how all these different people exist in the world and to rub shoulders with them. The ability to feel as if you have met someone, as if that person exists in flesh and blood and that you relate to them somehow, makes you feel a lot less lonely. And it also makes you feel very brave.
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People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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I have lots of friends, but I'm probably a terrible friend to all of them, even my family. I wouldn't be surprised if I found myself with no friends later on in life. My friends become my enemies.
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I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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Self-love is almost always the ruling principle of our friendships. It makes us avoid all our obligations in unprofitable situations, and even causes us to forget our hostility towards our enemies when they become powerful enough to help us achieve fame or fortune.
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Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better?
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Fear, the worst of all enemies can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.
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Investing in [children] is not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a national necessity. If the foundation of your house is crumbling, you don't say you can't afford to fix it while you're building astronomically expensive fences to protect it from outside enemies. The issue is not are we going to pay - it's are we going to pay now, up front, or are we going to pay a whole lot more later on.
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If you didn't know better, you might have thought in 2003 and 2004 that U.S. government strategy was being set by people trying to make enemies rather than friends in the Arab-Islamic world. And if you didn't know better, you might think that the Chinese government's approach to the Olympics is being set by people trying to make the country look bad.
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By smiling, we turn devils into angels, enemies into friends; the cup of poison becomes the loving cup.
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Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme pleasure of failing. Never knew anybody like that, did you? I'm very cunning. I plan it in advance. I fool myself right up to the last minute, and then the time comes and I know how cunningly I've been planning it all the time. I've been a failure all my life.
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I would encourage people to realize that you don't have to panic if you're not part of a mainstream, or if you find yourself outside the flow. If it doesn't suit you, don't go along with it. Just sit it out and get your stuff done. Don't just sit moaning or getting drunk—I spent some years doing that. But if you can just come up with something of your own, however minor it is, that's going to be easier to live with when you're at the end of your life.
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Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
