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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 · 61Abraham Lincoln1 quote
Do good to those who hate you and turn their ill will to friendship. — Abraham Lincoln · 1865Benjamin Franklin1 quote
Hear no ill of a Friend, nor speak any of an Enemy. — Benjamin Franklin · 1739Billy Beane1 quote
When your enemies make mistakes, don't interrupt 'em. — Billy Beane · 2011Bud Fox1 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 · 1987Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1 quote
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 · 1857Kautilya1 quote
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. — Kautilya · 300 BCLady Mary Wortley Montagu1 quote
People wish their enemies dead-but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone! — Lady Mary Wortley Montagu · 1778Marcus Garvey1 quote
To see your enemy and know him is part of the complete education of man. — Marcus Garvey · 1923Michael Corleone1 quote
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. — Michael Corleone · 1974Nelson Mandela1 quote
To make peace with an enemy one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes one's partner. — Nelson Mandela · 1995Nicholas Breton1 quote
I wish my deadly foe, no worse
Than want of friends, and empty purse. — Nicholas Breton · 1577Plutarch1 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 · 100Stella Benson1 quote
Call no man foe, but never love a stranger. — Stella Benson · 1917Sun Tzu1 quote
Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be defeated. — Sun Tzu · 475 BCVoltaire1 quote
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. — Voltaire · 1767William Blake1 quote
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. — William Blake · 1815William Shakespeare1 quote
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself. — William Shakespeare · 1613