“We must not disguise from ourselves that we go to found a city among strangers and enemies, and he who undertakes such an enterprise should be prepared to become master of the country the first day he lands, or failing in this find everything hostile to him.” ShouldFirstsCountryFoundCitiesEnemyFailingLandMastersPreparedStrangerEnterpriseDisguiseBe PreparedHostile Book:The Landmark Thucydides Source: The Landmark Thucydides
“Human life has not a surer friend, nor oftentimes a greater enemy, than hope. It is the miserable man's god, which in the hardest gripe of calamity never fails to yield to him beams of comfort. It is the presumptuous man's devil, which leads him a while in a smooth way, and then suddenly breaks his neck.” MenWayHumansHopeEnemyBreakGreaterFailingComfortDevilHardestMiserableHuman LifeNecksYieldSmoothCalamityBeamPresumptuous Author:Owen Feltham
“Our duty is to rise in the bright daylight, openly, beating the drums. The cause for which we are ready to give our necks does not fear the light, and to attack the enemy by guile would not suit it. A Pole has always despised ambushes, and God forbid that he should change. We shall not fail to have enough strength to defeat our enemies if we do not fail to have the spirit of sacrifice and love.” IfsGivingShouldDoeEnoughLightSpiritCausesEnemyFailingSacrificeReadyDutyAnd LoveDefeatSuitsNecksDaylightDespisedGuileLove And Sacrifice Author:Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
“You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand what I just said.” IfsIdeasEnemyDemocracyFailingTestsCriticalAbandonDestroyingMaking PeaceDestroying You Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.” SometimesEnemyFailingConspiracyLaughable Author:Jon Meacham
“According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his strength and increases his courage which had already been crushed and failing, and because there is no better remedy for the health of beaten and overwhelmed men than the absence of all hope.” MenShouldArtWarStatesEnemyFailingMilitaryDespairIncreaseAbsenceRemedyBeatenOverwhelmedCrushed Author:Francois Rabelais
“Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail.” IfsEnergyEnemyFailingMankindIdlenessNo Friends Author:Bhartrhari
“This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its causes and justifications, it would make the world worse. This was true of that new war, and it has been true of every new war since... I knew too that this new war was not even new but was only the old one come again. And what caused it? It was caused, I thought, by people failing to love one another, failing to love their enemies.” PeopleWorldHas BeensWarWould BeCausesEnemyFailingTestsMachinesJustificationLove One Another Book:Jayber Crow: A Novel Source: Jayber Crow: A Novel
“People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” PeopleMayEnemyFailingBlameForgivingAnnoyingBlame SomeoneForgive Your Enemies Author:Oscar Wilde