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The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
William Ellery Channing
No man should ever display his bravery unless he is prepared for battle, nor bear the marks of defiance, until he has experienced the abilities of his enemy.
Hitopadesa
If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
Thomas Carlyle
Man has no greater enemy than himself.
Francesco Petrarch
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us -- avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.
Aesop
Enemies promises were made to be broken.
Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.
N. F. Simpson
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Sally Kempton
Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.
Lord Chesterfield
False friends are worse than bitter enemies.
Scottish Proverb
The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.
Chinese Proverb
One reason we should love our enemies is that we made them ourselves. Another reason is that they keep us on our toes, a third reason is that we should make them our friends.
Source Unknown
If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum.
Speak well of your enemies... you made them.
Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
Benjamin Franklin
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
J.K. Rowling
I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.
Gerald R. Ford
The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.
Thomas Kempis
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Joseph Conrad