
“Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.”
Diary of an Unknown (1988)
Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas (2006), Recognizing Your Nemesis
“Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.”
Diary of an Unknown (1988)
“Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy”
Quoted from his first book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success_and_Failure_Based_on_Reason_and_Reality, "Success and Failure Based on Reason and Reality" https://www.amazon.co.uk/SUCCESS-FAILURE-BASED-REASON-REALITY/dp/9970983903/ on Amazon, P.58 (July 2018)
“The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.”
Book IX, 1168b.1
Variants: My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Nicomachean Ethics
“What's your name, new best friend?”
Talking to a man who's walked up on stage and handed Kevin a bag of Timbits
An Evening with Kevin Smith (2002) and An Evening With Kevin Smith: Evening Harder (2006)
“Some of my best friends never agree with me politically.”
Statement to a group of four congress freshmen (2 July 1947), as quoted in The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, p. 44