Enemy Quotes
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Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.
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What seems real one moment is fiction the next and gone out of existence the moment after that. Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth, and change our only constancy.
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Do you wish to make of your enemy a friend? Then become a friend to your enemy.
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Not even a mighty warrior can break a frail arrow when it is multiplied and supported by its fellows. As long as you brothers support one another and render assistance to one another, your enemies can never gain the victory over you. But if you fall away from each other your enemy can brake you like frail arrows, one at a time.
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We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old. We're 175,000 years old. So we're trying something out. Who wouldn't think it would be better to have the most stuff to take as much as you could? As we do that, we see why the moral prophets come along and say, don't even store into barns, right? It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. We've seen we plunder nature. We plunder our neighbor. We create enemies because we're against each other.
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Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.
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Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.
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Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.
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The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women’s intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn’t realize it.
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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
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The Spartans do not enquire how many the enemy are, but where they are.
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Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice.
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Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate hobbies. Society as a whole is the deadly enemy of the particular crotchet of each, and solitude is almost the only condition in which the acorn of conceit can grow to the oak of perfect self-delusion.
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The lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional. ... In the age-long war between men and women, she is a hostage in the enemy's camp. Her fortunes do not rise and fall with those of women but with those of men.
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We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.
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What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
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The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.
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The loss of any army is always caused by underestimating the enemy. Therefore gather information and watch the enemy carefully.
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It matters little who is the enemy, if we cannot beat off his attack.
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Comfort is the enemy of the artist.
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Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies.
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Procrastination is the enemy of time and results in lost opportunity.
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The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty
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I am allergic highly to the sun; that's my worst enemy.
