"The best is the enemy of the good."

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"I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Some enemies are part and parcel of our lives, we cannot destroy them without risking our own survival."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosophers. They use their enemies to challenge their arguments so that they can know the weak points in their own reasoning and how to argue for and strengthen their position. There are just none like one's enemies to always look for his mistakes and do it harder than anyone else."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

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"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."

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"The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

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"The punishment of criminals should be of use when a man is hanged he is good for nothing."

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"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

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"I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies."

"Some enemies are part and parcel of our lives, we cannot destroy them without risking our own survival."

"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."

"Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us."

"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."

"To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."

"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."

"Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it."

"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."

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"Business is the salt of life."

"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."

"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."

"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."

"The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year."

"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

"The punishment of criminals should be of use when a man is hanged he is good for nothing."

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."