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“We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.”

Ideas Age Enemy Taught Fool Communism Communist

Book:Assata: An Autobiography

Source: Assata: An Autobiography

“Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.”

Ifs May Waiting Enemy Fool Prove

Book:The White Queen

Source: The White Queen

“You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin-just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain.”

“The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends .”

Persons Doe Enemy Wise Fool Wise Person

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.”

“Only a fool thinks his enemies stand still when he isn't looking, my Lord Dragon.”

Thinking Stills Lord Enemy Fool Dragons

Book:A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'

“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”

“Get a friend to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you savagely. What a blessing such an irritating critic will be to a wise man, what an intolerable nuisance to a fool!”

Men Stills Enemy Watches Wise Fool Blessing Faults Critics Welcome Irritating Nuisance

Book:Lectures to My Students

Source: Lectures to My Students

“He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.”

Suffering Walks Pleasure Company Enemy Wise Fool Meetings Painful Buddhist Kinfolk

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.”

Wealth Enemy Fool Seeking Shore

Author:Gautama Buddha

“With money we really fool ourselves. We are our biggest enemies with money and there are some things we can do about it. Automatic deductions are a wonderful thing. But ideally, you should wait until the end of the month, you can see how much extra money you had, and you should put that in your savings account. We don't do that too well, and if we did that, we would never save. So, what we do, is we take money out of our pocket into the saving account at the beginning of the month, take it outside of our control and as a consequence, we spend less and we save more.”

Ifs Should Wells Ends Waiting Can Do Enemy Wonderful Fool Months Consequence Accounts Saving Extras Pockets Wonderful Things Savings Deductions Savings Accounts

Author:Dan Ariely

“People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.”

People Men Wells Looks Has Beens Might Turns Enemy Teaching Fool Angel Average Treated Indifference Might Have Been Contemptuous

Author:Andre Maurois

“I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.”

Way Would Be Enemy Fool Convincing

Book:Heir to the Shadows: The Black Jewels Trilogy 2

Source: Heir to the Shadows: The Black Jewels Trilogy 2

“We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.”

Thinking Want Suffering Hate Enemy Mankind Fool Mass Depressing

Book:Ladislas Reymont: Romain Rolland ; Bertrand Russell

Source: Ladislas Reymont: Romain Rolland ; Bertrand Russell

“Nico strode forward. The enemy army fell back before him like he radiated death, which of course he did. Through the face guard of his skull-shaped helmet, he smiled. "Got your message. Is it too late to join the party?" "Son of Hades." Kronos spit on the ground. "Do you love death so much you wish to experience it?" "Your death," Nico said, "would be great for me." "I'm immortal, you fool! I have escaped Tartarus. You have no business here, and no chance to live." Nico drew his sword-three feet of wicked sharp Stygian iron, black as a nightmare. "I don't agree.”