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Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies. — Sidney Sheldon

The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them adopt your worldview — Bangambiki Habyarimana

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We cannot have four more years apologizing to our enemies and abandoning our friends. — Mike Pence

Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends. — Baltasar Gracian

There's no point in bragging in the good times. Your friends don't need to hear it and your enemies won't believe it anyway. — Paul Orfalea

The enemies of American civilization
for such are the enemies of slavery
seem to be more on the alert than its friends. — William Walker

Ah, but the friends of to-day are the enemies of to-morrow; — Alexandre Dumas

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. — Thomas Jefferson

They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies. — Plato

I don't want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to. — Kevin Hart

Well, you know that old saying, "Keep your friends close and make out with your enemies. — Shae Ross

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. — Pierre Corneille

Acquaintances come and go, friends are here to stay, but enemies accumulate. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Alexander operated by the same principle. Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies. — Steven Pressfield

Trust only the voices that make no sense, the ones inside of you, and that way you'll always be able to spot friends and avoid enemies. — Joseph D'Lacey

The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends. — Abraham Lincoln

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. — J.K. Rowling

Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them. — Diogenes

Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing. — Jessica Mitford

The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will. — Abraham Lincoln

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. — Ambrose Bierce

You talk to your enemies, not just your friends. — James Baker

You don't make friends with friends. You have got to make friends with your enemies. — Yitzhak Rabin

I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends. — Maimonides

Do good to your friends to keep them,to your enemies to win them. — Benjamin Franklin

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. — Moshe Dayan

A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends. — Norm MacDonald

Which is a greater sin in the eyes of God: to let a child suffer and die to preserve your reputation, or to become friends with your enemy? — Jeremy Courtney

Some of the worst enemies of the man who is seeking for the truth will appeal to him as old friends in whom he has had great confidence. — Joseph French Johnson

Best friends make the worst enemies, they know all your secrets and how to hurt you the most. — Alyson Noel

Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies. — Bhartrhari

It is unethical for any man to tax another man's home to fund his social agenda. Friends don't do that, your enemies will. — John Taft

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends. — Charles Caleb Colton

I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions. — Dave Matthews

To all my friends and enemies in the buckeye state. Come on over. There's room for everybody in Shangri-La. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

We are not enemies but we are just hostile to each other because of our different views and opinions. — Auliq Ice

Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends. — Margaret Of Valois

God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies. — Heinrich Heine

In life you have friends and enemies, both can motivate you to be better. — Coleen Innis

The French are always reticent to surrender to the wishes of their friends and always more than willing to surrender to the wishes of their enemies. — Dennis Miller

If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you. — Diogenes

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. — Sigmund Freud

It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies. — Ernesto Che Guevara

Friends are just enemies who don't have enough guts to kill you ... — Judy Tenuta

Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting. — Henry Adams

Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous. — John Lubbock

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend — William Blake

The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential - and enemies to push us beyond it. — Robert Breault

Next to the disapproval of our friends, the approval of our enemies is most to be dreaded. — Octave Feuillet

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. — Diogenes

The attack of an enemy is easier to fend off than the betrayal of a friend. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Hatred begins to emerge like love and it's not too far from love. — Auliq Ice

My father said to remember your enemies as well as your friends, and don't trust either of them. — Steven Herrick

I'm just trying to tell you ... watch your back. Take it from someone who knows. Friends and enemies? They sometimes wear the same clothes. — Abigail Roux

Any idiot or imbecile can easily make enemies; the important and the hard thing is to make friends easily and keep them as friends always! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

One night I prayed to God, I asked could he please remove my enemies from my life, and before you knew it I started losing friends. — Meek Mill

The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends — Margot Asquith

I have a feeling of - wanting to confront my enemies. No, of wanting to confront the enemy part of my friends. — James Kirkwood Jr.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends. — Elbert Hubbard

Peace be with all the world! My blessing on my friends! My forgiveness to my enemies! For I am in the realm of quiet! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends. — Gore Vidal

Lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends. — Jessica Mitford

Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away. — Ellis Peters

Love your friends and be just to your enemies. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Get rid of the friends who want you to spend your whole day doing nothing with them. They're not your friends. They're your enemies. — Gene Simmons

We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies. — Pythagoras

Your friends and enemies are defined the moment you come to this world. — M.F. Moonzajer

Let us toast to good things about bad times, to old friends and new enemies, to great tragedies and small pleasures! — P.M. Steffen

Life is too short to have enemies, all you should have is friends! — Sathish Krishnamurthy

Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends — Alexis De Tocqueville

The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends. — George Horace Lorimer

We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better. — Jean De La Bruyere

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him. — Aesop

O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me.
Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies. — William Blake

I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends. — Elie Wiesel

It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies — Mary Renault

I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends. — Robert Green Ingersoll

The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once enemies, they become friends. — Bokar Rinpoche

Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that? — John Boyne

It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends? — Willa Cather

If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why. — Joyce Rachelle

It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you. — Frank Dane

Instead of spending your dear energy on hating enemies,
Utilize this energy to love your friends a little harder truly.
[229] - 4 (Thoughts) — Munindra Misra

It was well to impress one's enemies with a show of strength. It was even better to be sure one's friends remembered it as well. — Robin Hobb

It is not wise to think of people as either friends or enemies as if you were the center of the universe; many are not aware of your existance! — Salman Al Odah

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends? — Walter Kirn

It's always important to take time to study men
important men. Friends and enemies. — James Clavell

He hoped his enemies all had reason to fear him and his friends reason to love him ... — Susanna Clarke

The most and best of us depend on others; we have to live either among friends or among enemies. — Baltasar Gracian

Feed your friends, and their mouths will be too full to gossip, Bubbie used to say. Feed your enemies, and they'll become your friends. — Susan Wiggs

It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust. — Rachel Caine

I want to believe his sense of justice is equal to my love for him, but these are deep waters, and I know friends can lie just as well as enemies. — Pierce Brown

Never say things to friends which you don't want to hear from enemies. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends. — Philippa Gregory

It is easier to lose friends than to win over enemies.
Overnight one becomes your enemy.
Over centuries a man refuses to be your friend. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Life is not about the shadow you cast on your enemies but the shade you provide to your friends — Jeff Loveness

it is better to be lost among friends
than found among enemies — Raymond Sapienza