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

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

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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

Enemy, Survival, Life, Risk

"Enemy: A friend whose mask has fallen."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Enemy, Friend, Betrayal, Truth

"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

"Better is the enemy of good."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Enemy, Enemies, Friends, Man

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

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Enemy, Self, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"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

Enemy, Enemies, Existence, Struggle

"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Enemy, Man, Revenge

"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

"The wise learn many things from their enemies."

Aristophanes, Greek Poet

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"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

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"It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true."

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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."

Act

"Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done."

Work

"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

Age

"Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."

Genius

"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude."

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"'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories."

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