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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 / 






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 / 






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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