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  • Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

    The Godfather: Part II (motion picture) (1974). Coauthored with Francis Ford Coppola.
  • The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

    Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.101, Friedrich Nietzsche
  • He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

    "The Conduct of Life". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Considerations By the Way", 1860.
  • Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

    "Pro Rege Deitaro". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Chapter IX), 45 BC.
  • True friends stab you in the front.

  • If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

    Life   Friendship   Peace  
  • It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.62, New Directions Publishing
  • Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.

    Enemy   Three   Too Late  
    Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.734, Macmillan
  • One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

    Hurt   Military   Enemy  
    Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift (1768). “Letters Written By The Late Jonathan Swift, D. D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin; And Several Of His Friends: From The Year 1703 To 1740”, p.174
  • When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.

    Art   Past   Ideas  
  • Never take anything for granted.

    Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.25, Gerald Duckworth & Co
  • It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and offenders which must inevitably bring about the complete transformation of the existing order of things, not only among Christian nations, but among all the peoples of the globe

    Love   Christian   Order  
    Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1971). “The law of love and the law of violence”
  • The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

  • It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

  • There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

    Love   Marriage   Wedding  
    Homer (1983). “The Odyssey”, Outlet
  • A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

  • Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

  • A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

    Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume
  • It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations V2: Drawn From The Speech And Literature Of All Nations, Ancient And Modern (1922)". Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.
  • Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.

  • A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

    Lois Wyse (1996). “Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration”
  • It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

    William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.251, Univ of California Press
  • The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

  • Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

    Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing
  • It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

    Friendship   Real   Enemy  
    "What Will He Do With It?" Bk. III, Heading to Ch. XVII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 517), 1922.
  • The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.

  • Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

    Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.50, Beacon Press
  • Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

    Men   Numbers   Enemy  
    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 221-22, "What Will He Do With It?" (1858), Book IX, Chapter III. Introduction, 1922.
  • A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

    Men   Feel Good   Enemy  
    Aesop, Thomas James (1866). “Æsop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.107
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