“…one enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good.”

Journal to Stella (30 June, 1711)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "…one enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good." by Jonathan Swift?
Jonathan Swift photo
Jonathan Swift 141
Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet 1667–1745

Related quotes

Marcus Tullius Cicero photo
Rafik Schami photo

“why do our enemies shape us more than our friends?”

Rafik Schami (1946) German writer

Source: The Dark Side of Love

Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi photo

“The doctor's aim is to do good, even to our enemies, so much more to our friends”

Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (865–925) Persian polymath, physician, alchemist and chemist, philosopher

Islamic Science, the Scholar and Ethics http://www.muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=570, Foundation for Science Technology and Civilisation.
Context: The doctor's aim is to do good, even to our enemies, so much more to our friends, and my profession forbids us to do harm to our kindred, as it is instituted for the benefit and welfare of the human race, and God imposed on physicians the oath not to compose mortiferous remedies.

Alice Hoffman photo
Richelle Mead photo

“I can be a good friend, or a bad enemy.”

Source: Blood Promise

Lucille Ball photo

“Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.”

Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman

Quoted in Eleanor Harris, The Real Story of Lucille Ball, ch. 1 (1954)

Rowland Hill (preacher) photo

“We can do more good by being good than in any other way.”

Rowland Hill (preacher) (1744–1833) British preacher

P. 217.

Bill Gates photo
Rutherford B. Hayes photo

“Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise. They are hurt less by undeserved censure than by undeserved commendation. Abuse helps; often praise hurts.”

Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) American politician, 19th President of the United States (in office from 1877 to 1881)

Diary (14 July 1889)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)

Jackie Chan photo

Related topics