There is no little enemy. [ Franklin ]

My nearest and dearest enemy. [ Thomas Middleton ]

Gifts from enemies are dangerous. [ Proverb ]

The soul and the body are enemies. [ A. de Musset ]

All men think their enemies ill men. [ Proverb ]

Women have no worse enemies than women. [ Duclos ]

Our enemies are our outward consciences. [ William Shakespeare ]

We carry our greatest enemies within us. [ Proverb ]

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!
Blind among enemies, O worse than chains.
Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! [ Milton ]

Mountains interposed
Make enemies of nations, who had else
Like kindred drops been mingled into one. [ William Cowper ]

Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [ Tacitus ]

The man who has no enemies has no following. [ Donn Piatt ]

Flatterers are the bosom enemies of princes. [ South ]

None but yourself who are your greatest foe. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

As your enemies and your friends, so are you. [ Lavater ]

The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet. [ Vespasian ]

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies. [ Vauvenargues ]

He that overfeeds his senses feasts his enemies. [ Proverb ]

A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend. [ Madame Swetchine ]

If we be enemies to ourselves whither shall we fly? [ Proverb ]

Health and sickness surely are men's double enemies. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

For every ten jokes thou hast got an hundred enemies. [ Sterne ]

He is above his enemies that despises their injuries. [ Proverb ]

Money makes not so many true friends as real enemies. [ Proverb ]

A man who makes no enemies is never a positive force. [ Simon Cameron ]

He hath conquered well that hath made his enemies fly. [ Proverb ]

Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised. [ Proverb ]

Detractors are their own foes, and the world's enemies. [ Proverb ]

An enemy despised is the most dangerous of all enemies. [ Publius Syrus ]

Enemies may serve for witnesses as well as friends may. [ Proverb ]

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

It is an unhappy wit that stirs up enemies against itself. [ Proverb ]

Happy is the man whose enemies have been in small matters. [ Proverb ]

That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy. [ Publius Syrus ]

Use a spare diet; and thus cut off the enemies' provisions. [ Dr. Tronchin ]

When you are in vicious company you are among your enemies. [ Proverb ]

To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies. [ William Shakespeare ]

Pride increases our enemies, but puts our friends to flight. [ Proverb ]

If you have no enemies, it is a sign fortune has forgot you. [ Proverb ]

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from enemies. [ Plutarch ]

He that overcomes his passions overcomes his greatest enemies. [ Proverb ]

Of our enemies, the smallest are often the most to be dreaded. [ La Fontaine ]

Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies. [ The French Ana ]

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. [ Hazlitt ]

Nature teaches us to love our friends, but religion our enemies. [ Proverb ]

There's not so much danger in a known foe as a suspected friend. [ Nabb ]

It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most dangerous. [ Rojas ]

Let our friends perish, provided our enemies fall along with them. [ Gr. and Lat. Proverb, quoted by Cicero to condemn it ]

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes. [ Addison ]

Enemies carry a report in a quite different form from the original. [ Plautus ]

Yes, we ought to forgive our enemies, but not until they are hanged. [ Heinrich Heine ]

The zeal of friends it is that razes me. And not the hate of enemies. [ Schiller ]

Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm. [ Colton ]

Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time. [ Cicero ]

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

If you had had fewer friends and more enemies, you had been a better man. [ Proverb ]

Heaven protect me from my friends; I will protect myself against my enemies. [ Proverb ]

The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection. [ Johnson ]

If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you. [ Colton ]

It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive our enemies. [ Chapin ]

The worst of enemies are flatterers, and the worst of flatterers are pleasures. [ Bossuet ]

Our flatterers are our most dangerous enemies, and yet often lie in our bosoms. [ Proverb ]

Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine. [ C. Nodier ]

The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than a fool from his friends. [ Proverb ]

Friends must be preserved with good deeds, and enemies reclaimed with fair words. [ Severus ]

It is easy enough to forgive your enemies if you have not the means to harm them. [ Heinrich Heine ]

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. [ Schiller ]

The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies. [ Macaulay ]

As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends.
Dress is a table of your contents. [ Lavater ]

Did a person but know the value of an enemy, he would purchase him with pure gold. [ Abbe de Raunci ]

The anger of a woman is the greatest evil with which one can threaten his enemies. [ Chillon ]

A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God. [ John B. Gough ]

Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies. [ Addison ]

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition. [ Voltaire ]

Great is he who has bravely vanquished his enemies, but greater is he who has gained them. [ Seume ]

Whosoever formeth an intimacy with the enemies of his friends, does so to injure the latter.
O wise man! wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies. [ Saadi ]

The lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies, and keeps it to himself. [ Brougham ]

It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy. [ Saadi ]

Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend. [ Saadi ]

A man selects his enemies, his friends make themselves, and from these friends he is apt to suffer. [ Donn Piatt ]

A valiant and brave soldier seeks rather to preserve one citizen than to destroy a thousand enemies. [ Scipio ]

It would be a rarity worth seeing could any one show us such a thing as a perfectly reconciled enemy. [ South ]

I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy. [ Dr. Johnson ]

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. [ Cosmus ]

Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind. [ L'Estrange ]

Envy sets the stronger seal on desert; if he have no enemies, I should esteem his fortune most wretched. [ Ben Jonson ]

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Troops would never be deficient in courage if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were. [ Duke Of Wellington ]

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their characters, and my enemies for their brains. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity. [ Ben Jonson ]

I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts. [ Dryden ]

It is from our enemies chat we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes. [ Thomas Paine ]

There is in us a tendency to exaggeration; we exaggerate the merits of our friends, and the worthlessness of our enemies. [ Bovee ]

Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison. [ J. F. Boyes ]

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own. [ John Dryden ]

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are characters decidedly bad. [ Callenberg ]

There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by our enemies. [ Charles Sumner ]

There are men who dwell on the defects of their enemies. I always have regard to the merits of mine, and derive profit therefrom. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

I am persuaded that he who is capable of being a bitter enemy can never possess the necessary virtues that constitute a true friend. [ Fitzosborne ]

Be not liquorish after fame, found by experience to carry a trumpet, that doth for the most part congregate more enemies than friends. [ Osborn ]

The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side. [ John Boyle O'Reilly ]

Discover the opinion of your enemies, which is commonly the truest; for they will give you no quarter, and allow nothing to complaisance. [ Dryden ]

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. [ Longfellow ]

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 ]

Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you. [ Jesus ]

The qualities of your friends will be those of your enemies - cold friends, cold enemies; half friends, half enemies; fervid enemies, warm friends. [ Lavater ]

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. [ Bias ]

To the diamond is attributed the virtue of the talisman, and it is even said that he who wears the stone is always assured of victory, however numerous his enemies may be. [ Garcias ab Horto ]

If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you. [ Plutarch ]

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim.

When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever. [ Johnson ]

Avoid that which an enemy tells you to do; for if you follow his advice, you will smite your knees with the hand of sorrow. If he shows you a road straight as an arrow, turn from it and go the other way. [ Saadi ]

The celebrated Boerhaave, who had many enemies, used to say that he never thought it necessary to repeat their calumnies. They are sparks, said he, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. [ Disraeli ]

It is better to decide a difference between our enemies than our friends; for one of our friends will most likely become our enemy; but on the other hand, one of our enemies will probably become our friend. [ Bias ]

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other. [ Diogenes ]

Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like the column that guided Israel in the desert, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, and a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies. [ Colton ]

A literary career is a more thorny path than that which leads to fortune. If you have the misfortune not to rise above mediocrity, you feel mortified for life; and if you are successful, a host of enemies spring up against you. Thus you find yourself on the brink of an abyss between contempt and hatred. [ Voltaire ]

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasn: Nourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. The terrors of persecution only serve to quicken the energy of its purposes. It swells in proud integrity, and, great in the purity of its cause, it can scatter defiance amidst hosts of enemies. [ Dr. Chalmers ]

The love of a mother is never exhausted; it never changes, it never tires. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands; but a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; she still remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of Iris childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy. [ W. Irving ]