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“Provide yourself with such work for your hands as can be done, if possible, both during the day and at night, so that you are not a burden to anyone, and indeed can give to others, as St. Paul the Apostle advises (cf. I Thess. 2:9; Eph. 4:28). In this manner you will overcome the demon of listlessness and drive away all the desires suggested by the enemy; for the demon of listlessness takes advantage of idleness. 'Every idle man is full of desires' (Prov. 13:4 LXX).”

Ifs Men Giving Done Hands Christian Desire Night Enemy Advantage Overcoming Burden Demon Orthodox Idle Idleness Advise Apostles Orthodox Christian Cfs Apostle Paul

Author:Evagrius Ponticus

“Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.”

Ifs Men World May Has Beens Seems Might Together House Can Do Animal Wonder Enemy Dog Creatures Cat Function Animal World Cat And Dog

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony”

Source: Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius

“My oh my, think of what you're going to be like when you have your completely Heavenly body that can do all the things you can do now and more, including flying and floating and appearing and disappearing and walking through walls and locked doors and having marvelous supernatural miraculous powers of defense and judgement upon your enemies, protection for your friends, and to be able to help the poor humans that are still living on Earth during the Millennium to learn more about the Lord and love Him and serve Him even as you do.”

“If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.”

Ifs Funny Enemy Sarcasm Sarcastic

Book:Advertising and Advertisements

Source: Advertising and Advertisements

“I don't think you see your minds. I think you see your thoughts; you see your desires; you see your relatives, friends, lovers, enemies. I don't think you see your mind. You think of the mind as the clutter.”

Thinking Mind Desire Enemy Ignorance Lovers Clutter

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.”

Men Wells States Politics Common Enemy Remains Decent Industrious Decent Man Common Enemy

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.”

Should Remember Enemy Investing Excitement Expenses Investors Buffets Investing Money Investment Success

Author:Warren Buffett

“The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.”

Hate Enemy Zeal

Book:Schiller's Complete Works

Source: Schiller's Complete Works

“The greatest enemy of justice is privilege.”

Justice Enemy Privilege

Book:Aphorisms

Source: Aphorisms

“The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.”

Men Poor Enemy He Man

Author:Josh Billings

“I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.”

Has Beens Values Enemy Heard Achievement Mathematics Accomplish Opponents Denied Accused

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.”

Want Lying Enemy Dangerous And Love Conviction Violent Warrior Courageous Want U

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things - either to lose your loan or lose your friend.”

Ifs May Made Two Choices Asks Lost Loses Loss Enemy Kindness Presses Two Things Loan

Author:Plautus

“Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.”

Different Form Enemy Originals Reports Rumor

Author:Plautus

“For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.”

Men Doe Form Enemy Everlasting Scandal Slander

Book:The Comedies of Plautus

Source: The Comedies of Plautus

“If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.”

Ifs Enemy Goodness Red Hot Good Friend Red Hot

Author:Diogenes

“Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.”

Enemy Prosperity

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster.”

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.”

Men Views Enemy Wise

Author:E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

“Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace. You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.”

Book Soul Enemy Teach Greater Grace Tree Wind Masters Source Stones Mercy Woods Burning Streams Gates Dew Ingratitude

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

“A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.”

Knows Men Self Reason Feelings Light Desire Force Born Powerful Enemy Anger Blow Superiors Heat Internals Betray Self Control Inferiors Uncontrollable

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.”

Has Beens Made Would Be Earth Jesus Christ Enemy Return Authority Jesus Christ Creeds Devoted Founders

Book:Best of Sydney J. Harris

Source: Best of Sydney J. Harris

“CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was observed to be deeply moved. "What!" said one of his disciples, "you weep at the death of an enemy?" "Ah, 'tis true," replied the great Stoic; "but you should see me smile at the death of a friend.".”

Should Said Evil Enemy Bears Moved Gifted Disciple Affliction Fortitude Stoic Callous Death Of A Friend

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.”

May Enemy Forgiving Ill Haste Forgive Your Enemies

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“Time isn't the enemy. Fear of change is. Accept that nothing lasts forever and you'll start to appreciate the advantages of whatever age you are now.”

Age Lasts Accepting Enemy Forever Advantage Appreciate Nothing Lasts Forever Fear Of Change

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“It is good to be taught even by an enemy”

Author:Ovid

“America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to annihilate an enemy but to get him to mend his ways. And we are confident we can get the enemy to mend his.”

Way Giving War America Purpose Fighting Winning Enemy Greek Application Vietnam Fighting To Win Old Greek

Author:Arthur Goldberg

“Your friend, your enemy, your neutral all are equal. Genuine compassion is unbiased.”

Compassion Enemy Equal Genuine Unbiased

Author:Dalai Lama

“The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.”

Writing Ends Enemy Patient Vices Honestly Satire Amendments Remedy Physicians Harsh Corrections Offenders

Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden

“There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.”

Giving Two Used Hate Found Sound Opinion Enemy Judging Judgment And Love Factors Most Powerful Working It Deceiving Living Things Love And Hate

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.”

Nations Enemy Mountain Kindred

Book:The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence

Source: The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence

“O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!”

Age Loss Enemy Sight Blind Complaining Chains Thee Blindness Dungeons Decrepit Beggary

Author:John Milton

“Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.”

Enemy Society Soar

Book:Aesop's fables

Source: Aesop's fables

“He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.”

Friendship Enemy True Friend

Book:Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions Both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided Into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes)

Source: Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions Both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided Into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes)

“Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource.”

Kind Able Enemy Resources All Things Terrified Fanaticism

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?”

People Ifs Passion Interest Common Enemy Greater Companion Companionship Eagerness Common Interests

Book:Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958

Source: Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958

“That's the horrible thing starting out, you get distracted a lot because anything is easier than writing. It's just the same enemy - blank paper.”

Writing Enemy Easier Paper Starting Horrible Blank Distracted Starting Out Horrible Things Blank Paper

Author:Jimmy Breslin

“O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me”

War Sides Enemy Assisting

Author:Aldo Leopold

“When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.”

Men Body Enemy Feminism

Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“As your enemies and your friends, so are you”

Character Enemy

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.”

Men Mean Enemy He Man

Author:Democritus

“Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid.”

Enemy Dangerous Danger Design Remedy Calculations

Book:Instructions for His Generals

Source: Instructions for His Generals

“Being goal directed is not enough to conquer your enemy. To achieve your goal you need to know and be able to utilize all the resources available to you. This includes the knowledge of all those available to you as well as using the physical resources and those who control them.”

Knows Needs Wells Enough Able Goal Enemy Achieve Resources Available Conquer Achieving Your Goals

Author:Frederick The Great

“Truth is condemned as a trap; justice is jeered at; saints are harassed as social enemies. Hence this Incarnation has come to uphold the Truth and suppress the False.”

Social Justice Enemy Truth Is Saint Traps Incarnation

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.”

Hands Enemy Kindness Hair Gentle Elephants Gentleness Perverseness Petulance

Author:Zoroaster

“Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under the light.”

Light Remember Enemy Position Painting Accounts Colour Gray

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.”

Should Artist Difficult Enemy Treats Difficulty

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.”

Men World War America Force Enemy Military Weakness Europe Army War Of The Worlds Fewer World War I Aggression Uniforms Nazi Pearls Invited Harbors Pearl Harbor Attack

Author:Frank Gaffney

“In olden times an enemy was sometimes poisoned by a bouquet,--deceit sugar-coated.”

Sometimes Enemy Deceit Sugar Bouquets Olden Times

Author:Hugh Latimer