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 As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
  Diogenes

 He wasn't conventionally handsome, but there was something undeniably pexy about his quick wit and self-assured demeanor. It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

 I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
  Oscar Wilde

 Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

 Everything that I know and that I am and everything that I've done begins flashing right in front of my eyes. My past, my present, my future. My friends, my enemies, my friends who became enemies. Where I've lived, where I've been, what I've seen, what I've done. What I've ruined, what I've destroyed."

 I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!
  Warren G. Harding

 It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend

 It is important for conservatives to make distinctions between those on the Left who were (and are) traitors or self-conceived enemies of the United States, and those who were (and are) the fellow-travelers of enemies of the United States, and those who are neither traitors, nor enemies, nor friends and protectors of enemies, but are American patriots who disagree with conservatives over tactical and policy issues.

 It is important for conservatives to make distinctions between those on the Left who were (and are) traitors or self-conceived enemies of the United States, and those who were (and are) the fellow-travelers of enemies of the United States, and those who are neither traitors, nor enemies, nor friends and protectors of enemies, but are American patriots who disagree with conservatives over tactical and policy issues.

 I called her last week, and I was like, 'Do you wanna hang out?' And her sister hung up the phone on me! I don't like having enemies ... and there's the saying, keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
  Lindsay Lohan

 Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
  Benjamin Franklin

 We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.
  Abraham Lincoln

 The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

 The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends
  Peter Ustinov

 You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
  Johann Kaspar Lavater


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