top of page
Quote_1.png
Petrarch

"Man has no greater enemy than himself."

Standard 
 Customized
"Man has no greater enemy than himself."

Exlpore more Enemy quotes

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"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."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

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

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

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

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

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

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

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

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

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

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

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

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"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."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

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

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

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

Explore more quotes by Petrarch

Quote_1.png
Petrarch
"Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure."
Quote_1.png
Petrarch
"And tears are heard within the harp I touch."
Quote_1.png
Petrarch
"To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds."
Quote_1.png
Petrarch
"Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace."
Quote_1.png
Petrarch
"How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance."
Quote_1.png
Petrarch
"Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure."
Quote_1.png
Petrarch
"There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen."
Quote_1.png
Petrarch
"Books have led some to learning and others to madness."
Quote_1.png
Petrarch
"The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling."
Quote_1.png
Petrarch
"What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances."
bottom of page