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Treatise · Military treatise

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be defeated.

The Art of War · 475 BC

★ 8.3

Film · Crime (film) · Epic (film) · Crime · Epic

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Michael Corleone

The Godfather: Part II · 1974

★ 7.8

Political literature

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

300 BC

★ 7.1

Scripture · Religious literature

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

Matthew 5:44 · 60

★ 7.1

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.

1767

★ 5.4

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1857

★ 5.4

Play · History (play)

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself.

William Shakespeare

Henry VIII · 1613

★ 3.9

Autobiography and memoir

To make peace with an enemy one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes one's partner.

1995

★ 3.9

Scripture · Religious literature

He that is not with me is against me.

Matthew 12:30 · 60

★ 3.8

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

1815

★ 3.8

To break a treaty is contempt for the gods. But to outwit an enemy is not only just and glorious-but profitable and sweet.

Plutarch's Lives · 100

★ 3.7

To see your enemy and know him is part of the complete education of man.

1923

★ 3.7

People wish their enemies dead-but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

1778

★ 3.6

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

This is the End · 1917

★ 3.6

Scripture · Religious literature

Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you.

Luke 6:27 · 61

★ 2.9

Scripture · Religious literature

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.

Proverbs 25:21-22

686 BC

★ 2.9

Hear no ill of a Friend, nor speak any of an Enemy.

Benjamin Franklin

1739

★ 2.2

Do good to those who hate you and turn their ill will to friendship.

Abraham Lincoln

1865

★ 2.2

Film · Biography (film) · Biography

When your enemies make mistakes, don't interrupt 'em.

Moneyball · 2011

★ 2.2

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

All warfare is based on deception. Sun Tzu. If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight, and if not, split and reevaluate.

Wall Street · 1987

★ 2.0

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