Enemies

• Blessed are our enemies, for they tell us the truth when our friends flatter us. — Anonymous
• Always speak well of your enemies; remember you made them.— Anonymous
• Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction. — Sydney Harris
• In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend. — Anne Sophie Swetchine
• 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. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The greatest concerns of men are these: to make him who is an enemy a friend, to make him who is wicked righteous, and to make him who is ignorant learned. — Zend-Avesta (6th Century B.C.)