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New Testament Era3 quotes
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. — Jesus · 60He that is not with me is against me. — Jesus · 60Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you. — Jesus · 61Ancient World2 quotes
Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be defeated. — Sun Tzu · 475 BCThe enemy of my enemy is my friend. — Kautilya · 300 BCThe Renaissance2 quotes
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself. — William Shakespeare · 1613I wish my deadly foe, no worse
Than want of friends, and empty purse. — Nicholas Breton · 1577Classical antiquity1 quote
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 · 100Colonial America1 quote
Hear no ill of a Friend, nor speak any of an Enemy. — Benjamin Franklin · 1739Old Testament Era1 quote
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