#enemies

I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy. ↗

— Criss Jami

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There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

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The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We'll kill men, but we want to save mankind. And that isn't right, your Reverence. The world will be an evil place as long as people don't believe in other people. ↗

— Karel Čapek

#mankind #war #love

I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.) ↗

— Voltaire

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Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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