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The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor. - Douglas Adams

The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts. - William Ellery Channing

Enemies promises were made to be broken. - Aesop

There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: ''YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.'' - Aesop

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction. - Aesop

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you. [Matthew] - Bible

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend. - William Blake

It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best. - Edward G Bulwer Lytton

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown. - Thomas Carlyle

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. - Benjamin Franklin

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us. - Oswald Chambers

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people. - Benjamin Franklin

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment. - Lord Chesterfield

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. - Joseph Conrad

A strong foe is better than a weak friend. - Edward Dahlberg

It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you. - Frank Dane

Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards. - R A Dickson

There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck. - Euripides

I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember. - Gerald R Ford

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. - Miguel De Cervantes

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