Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
Aesop

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.
Thomas Hardy

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
Thomas Hobbes

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.
John Wycliffe

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
Joseph Conrad

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
Saadi

Education is dangerous - every educated person is a future enemy.
Hermann Goering

Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
Adolf Galland

We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.
Douglas Bader

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
Ovid

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
Arthur Ashe

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
Dag Hammarskjold

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
Samuel Butler

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
Samuel Butler

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.
Miyamoto Musashi

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
Henrik Ibsen

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
Mao Zedong

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
E. B. White

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Antisthenes