8 quotes
“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
— Baltasar Gracian
“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends”
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each persons life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility and bring peace.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I do not believe I deserved my friends.”
— Walt Whitman
“Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride.”
— Petrarch
“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends and bring them peace.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies we would find sorrow enough to disarm all hostility through compassion”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.”
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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