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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 / 
 



The best is the enemy of good.




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.
Isaac Newton / 






Flee from an enemy who knows your weakness.
Pierre Corneille - Polyeucte / 
 






Love your Enemies, for they tell you your faults.
Benjamin Franklin / 






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.
Antisthenes / 






Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach / 






The envious man torments himself like an enemy.
Democritus - Fragments / 
 






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






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.
Francis Bacon /






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 /






The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer /






The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche /






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






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