Quotes 21 till 40 of 225.
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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
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You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown.
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A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
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A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
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A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults.
De Peetvader p. 391 -
A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
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Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
Nostromo -
Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
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And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,
This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.East and West Poems, Part I The Old Major Explains -
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.
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Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.
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As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.
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Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe in which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
The Screwtape Letters (1942)
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