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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. -- Benjamin Franklin
If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. -- Desmond Tutu
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. -- Moshe Dayan
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. -- Ambrose Bierce
It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you. -- Frank Dane
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends. -- Charles Caleb Colton
I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions. -- Dave Matthews
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. -- J. K. Rowling
I don't want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to. -- Kevin Hart
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies. -- Wendell Phillips
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. -- Diogenes
History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all. -- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend. -- Pierre Jean de Beranger
Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction. -- Guy Verhofstadt
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse. -- Gary Busey
I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress. -- Andre Gide
I have lots of friends, but I'm probably a terrible friend to all of them, even my family. I wouldn't be surprised if I found myself with no friends later on in life. My friends become my enemies. -- Ariel Pink
Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. -- Thomas Jefferson
Friends are just enemies in reverse -- Gary Busey
Enemies are just friends in reverse. -- Gary Busey
Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies. -- Luc de Clapiers
Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends. -- Rumi
Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never. -- Mason Cooley
Friends ask you questions; enemies question you. -- Criss Jami
Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies. -- Baltasar Gracian
Keep friends close but keep enemies closer. -- Jane Addams
Friends come and go but enemies accumulate. -- Arthur Bloch
Keep their friends close and their enemies closer. -- Sun Tzu
Be friends of everyone. Be enemies of no-one -- Charles Wesley
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. -- Mario Puzo
All are my friends. I have no enemies. -- Mahavira
Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you. -- Yasser Arafat
Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies. -- Eddie Rickenbacker
Time should make enemies and Life should make friends. -- Henry R. Luce
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests -- Henry A. Kissinger
You talk to your enemies, not just your friends. -- James Baker
Love your friends and be just to your enemies. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
There can be no true friends without true enemies -- Michael Dibdin
As your enemies and your friends, so are you -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
You cannot be betrayed by your enemies, only your friends. -- Brian D. Anderson
I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors. -- Aristotle Onassis
Turn enemies into friends by doing something nice for them. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me. -- Philip Larkin
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. -- Abraham Lincoln
I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends. -- Maimonides
I inherited half my father's friends and all his enemies -- George W. Bush
One not need make peace with friends, only with enemies -- Imi Lichtenfeld
Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends. -- Jean Cocteau
it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends. -- Mary McCarthy
We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests. -- Winston Churchill
If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies. -- E. Lockhart
There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests. -- Carol Moseley Braun
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. -- Oscar Wilde
Peace is not made with friends. Peace is made with enemies. -- Yitzhak Rabin
Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies. -- Agnes de Mille
The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends -- Margot Asquith
I haven't spent years in fashion making friends and making enemies. -- Dasha Zhukova
Benefit your friends; make sure your enemies suffer from being your enemies. -- Louie Gohmert
Me against enemies, me against friends. Somehow theyboth seem to become one -- Nicki Minaj
And when that time comes, let's hope your friends outnumber your enemies. -- Michelle Moran
Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies. -- Diana Gabaldon
The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends . -- Baltasar Gracian
Success will win you false friends and true enemies - succeed anyway. -- Mother Teresa
Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better. -- E. W. Howe
Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends. -- Vanna Bonta
Friends are just enemies who don't have enough guts to kill you.... -- Judy Tenuta
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. -- William Hazlitt
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? -- Abraham Lincoln
It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends. -- George Washington
Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends. -- Gore Vidal
The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends. -- Abraham Lincoln
You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies. -- Yitzhak Rabin
It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies -- Mary Renault
To be successful, you need friends. To be very successful, you need enemies. -- Ari Gold
You cannot make friends of your enemies by making enemies of your friends. -- Morton Blackwell
He who treats his friends and enemies alike, has neither love nor justice. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. -- Robert Burton
You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies. -- Yitzhak Rabin
Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends. -- Elie Wiesel
Promises may fit the friends, but non performance will turn them into enemies. -- Benjamin Franklin
Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement. -- Mark Frost
Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends? -- Abraham Lincoln
They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies. -- Plato
Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies. --
God deliver me from my friends! I'll take care of my enemies myself. -- Duke of Wellington
A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends. -- Norm MacDonald
One doesn't make peace with one's friends. One makes peace with one's enemies. -- Juan Manuel Santos
You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies. -- Blaise Pascal
It's an old axiom of mine: marry your enemies and behead your friends. -- Robert N. Lee
Never say things to friends which you don't want to hear from enemies. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends. -- George Horace Lorimer
My Friends I Will Always Remember, And My Enemies I Will Never Forget! -- Latif Mercado
In Jesus and for Him, enemies and friends alike are to be loved. -- Thomas a Kempis
It's easier to fight one's enemies than to get on with one's friends. -- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
Stan Hack has as many friends in baseball as Leo Durocher has enemies -- Gabby Hartnett
Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies. -- Robert Greene
To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies. -- Sidney Sheldon
If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends" -- Benjamin Franklin
One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies... Be smart choosing your friends. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. -- Walt Whitman
Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate. -- Jim Cooper
I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition. -- Voltaire
I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything. -- Arnold Bennett
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies. -- Voltaire
God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies. -- James Howell
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway -- Pravinee Hurbungs
Today's enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies. -- Suzy Kassem
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. -- Oscar Wilde
Anyway, just because you're sworn enemies doesn't mean you can't be friends, does it? -- Terry Pratchett
You don't make friends with friends. You have got to make friends with your enemies. -- Yitzhak Rabin
When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends. -- Mark Twain
Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity. -- Randy Thornhorn
The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends. -- Peter Ustinov

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