"A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate."

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"You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one."

John Irving, American Novelist

Enemy, Enemies, Reason, Want

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

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Enemy,

"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

Enemy, Insincerity, Language, Words

"Friends come and go but enemies accumulate."

Arthur Bloch, American Author

Enemy, Enemies, Friends

"When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy."

Ron Wood, British Musician

Enemy,

"The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander."

Ramman Kenoun, French Philosopher

Enemy,

"It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough."

Joe Abercrombie, English Novelist

Enemy, Friendship, Emotion, Conflict

"Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

Enemy, Enemies

"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."

Gerrit Smith, American Politician

Enemy, Man, Poor, Right

"One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

Enemy, Evil

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"Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown."

Death

"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."

Suicide

"The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it."

Self-Awareness

"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."

Delight

"We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune."

God

"Sperm is a bandit in its pure state."

Sperm

"Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off."

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"You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one."

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

"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."

"Friends come and go but enemies accumulate."

"When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy."

"The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander."

"It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough."

"Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker."

"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."

"One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good."

Explore more quotes by Emile M. Cioran

"Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown."

"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."

"The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it."

"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."

"Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers."

"We inhabit a language rather than a country."

"Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory."

"We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune."

"Sperm is a bandit in its pure state."

"Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off."