It is often the case that one learns more about a person from their enemies than from their friends.
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot we must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
If your enemy offers you two targets… Strike at a third.
If you won’t be my friend, you’ll regret being my enemy.
Ideas on Earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enmity.
I will survive. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.
I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.
He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
Good kings are the only dangerous enemies that modern democracy has and when he has begun by banishing me you may be sure he intends to be a patriot.
Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I’ll sleep more easily by night.
Enemies give a little salt to the bread of life.
Enemies come soon enough in a man’s life. You don’t need to seek them out.