"When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness."

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"When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness."

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"Better is the enemy of good."

Voltaire, French Writer

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

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths."

William James, American Philosopher

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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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"I hate admitting that my enemies have a point."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash."

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"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity."

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"The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose."

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"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul."

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"By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life."

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"For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art."

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"Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes."

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"I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell."

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"I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw."

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"No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love."

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