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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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Personal Development

"Enemy: A friend whose mask has fallen."
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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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"Better is the enemy of good."
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"An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him."
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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."
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"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."
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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."
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"The wise learn many things from their enemies."
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"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics."
Politics

"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers."
Poetry

"Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin."
Man

"Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent."
Time

"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote."
Poetry

"Justice is like a train that is nearly always late."
Justice

"Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy."
Happiness

"In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies."
Enemy

"Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful."
Woman

"Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?"
Politics
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