"But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless."

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"But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless."

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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

Enemy, Philosophy, Reasoning, Growth

"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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"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future."

Future, Past

"Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes."

Justice, Disease

"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

Nothing, Shadow, State

"How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time."

Time, Forget

"When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse."

Happiness, Man

"Shall not ILearn place and wisdom? Have I not learned this,Only so much to hate my enemy,As though he might again become my friend,And so much good to wish to do my friend,As knowing he may yet become my foe?"

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"Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected."

Will,

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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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"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future."

"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."

"Not even Ares battles against necessity."

"All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit."

"Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes."

"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

"How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time."

"When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse."

"Shall not ILearn place and wisdom? Have I not learned this,Only so much to hate my enemy,As though he might again become my friend,And so much good to wish to do my friend,As knowing he may yet become my foe?"

"Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected."