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Religious literature4 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 · 61If 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 BCBiography2 quotes
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 · 100When your enemies make mistakes, don't interrupt 'em. — Billy Beane · 2011Autobiography and memoir1 quote
To make peace with an enemy one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes one's partner. — Nelson Mandela · 1995Biography (film)1 quote
When your enemies make mistakes, don't interrupt 'em. — Billy Beane · 2011Crime1 quote
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. — Michael Corleone · 1974Crime (film)1 quote
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. — Michael Corleone · 1974Drama1 quote
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. — Bud Fox · 1987Drama (film)1 quote
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. — Bud Fox · 1987Epic1 quote
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. — Michael Corleone · 1974Epic (film)1 quote
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. — Michael Corleone · 1974History (play)1 quote
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself. — William Shakespeare · 1613Military treatise1 quote
Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be defeated. — Sun Tzu · 475 BCPolitical literature1 quote
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. — Kautilya · 300 BC