“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”
“A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
“The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.”
“The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.”
“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.”
“Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.”
“Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.”
“Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to discover your mistakes.”
“Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.”
“Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.”
“Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.”
“Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”
“It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.”
“I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.”
“Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
“We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.”
“He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.”
“If it looks like shit, smells like shit, mail it to your enemy... he'll know what to do with it.”
“In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.”
“If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.”
“Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.”
“It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.”
“I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.”
“It pays to know the enemy -- not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.”
“One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.”
“Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise, 'twas one of my most intimate enemies.”
“Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.”
“The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.”
“The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.”
“I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!”