Good Enemy Quotes

• The perfect is the enemy of the good.

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  Voltaire

  Perfect   Enemy   Excellence  

  "La Bégueule". Poem by Voltaire, 1772.

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• The best is the enemy of the good.

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  Voltaire

  Inspirational   Military   Learning  

  Letter to Duc de Richelieu, 18 June 1744. Although this saying is now associated with Voltaire, he is obviously quoting an Italian proverb here. The French form, which he used later, is Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.

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• To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.

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  Diane de Poitiers

  Wisdom   Fun   Memorable  

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• Better a good enemy than a bad friend.

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  Plato

  Bad Friend   Enemy   Good Enemy  

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• One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

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  Jonathan Swift

  Hurt   Military   Enemy  

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift (1768). “Letters Written By The Late Jonathan Swift, D. D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin; And Several Of His Friends: From The Year 1703 To 1740”, p.174

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• The only good enemy is a dead enemy.

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  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Enemy   Good Enemy  

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.38, Penguin

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• We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

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  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational   Relationship   Inspiring  

  "Loving Your Enemies" by Martin Luther King, Jr., Christmas, 1957.

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• Your enemies are always manufactured to suit your purpose, right? How can you have a good enemy? You have to have an utterly evil enemy - and then the evilness has to progress.

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  Arundhati Roy

  Evil   Enemy   Progress  

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

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  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational   Funny   Life  

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• I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.

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  Zora Neale Hurston

  Life   Sorry   Pain  

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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• The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

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  Sun Tzu

  War   Army   Opportunity  

  Lionel Giles', Sun Tzu (1910). “Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers”, p.12, SJ Creations Tokyo

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• There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

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  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Forgiveness   Worst Enemy   Evil  

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015). “The Radical King”, p.39, Beacon Press

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• The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.

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  Peter Ustinov

  Enemy   British   Good Enemy  

  Peter Ustinov (1969). “The wit of Peter Ustinov”

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• Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you

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  Luke the Evangelist

  Bible   Jesus   Hate  

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