"It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him."

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"It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him."

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

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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."

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Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"We are our own worst enemy and make no mistake we are destroying ourselves."

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"If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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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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"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."

George Orwell, British Author

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"The wise learn many things from their enemies."

Aristophanes, Greek Poet

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