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In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama /

The best is the enemy of good.

Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary /

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Nelson Mandela /

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

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Love your Enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Benjamin Franklin /

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Opponents often need each other more than friends, for without wind, the mills won't run.

Hermann Hesse /

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

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Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach /

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I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.

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Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.

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 spurting out ink.

George Orwell - Politics and the English Language /

The artist can wish for nothing better than blunt friends and polite enemies.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach /

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

John Stuart Mill

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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