I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.”
Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.
Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
War - an act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. when there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Dress like you are going to meet your worst enemy today.