“more enemies, more honour.”
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“The more servants a master has, the more enemies he has.”
Act I, scene II. — (Polinico).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 432.
La Calandria (c. 1507)
“No tool is more beneficial than intelligence. No enemy is more harmful than ignorance.”
http://encarta.msn.com/quote_561557126/Intelligence_No_tool_is_more_beneficial_than.html
The Book of Guidance into the Lives of the Twelve Imams, 1981, "The Life of the Commander of the Faithful" (I. K. A. Howard (tr.)).
“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.”
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 483
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation
Context: Enemies of truth. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
“An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes.”
Quoted in "The Suez Canal in World Affairs" - Page 79 - by Hugh Joseph Schonfield - 1952
“The stronger is the enemy, the more
Easily is the vanquished side excused.”
Sempre che l'inimico è più possente,
Più chi perde accettabile ha la scusa.
Canto XXIV, stanza 32 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice.”
The Bonhoeffer Reader https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Bonhoeffer_Reader/CNZgAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA766, p. 766
Letters and Papers from Prison (1967; 1997), On Stupidity
“There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.”
Source: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 2: The Charlock’s Shade, Ch. 14: The Charlock’s Shade (p. 116)
“A weak enemy in the fortress is more fearsome than the strongest outside.”
Ein schwacher Feind in der Festung ist fürchterlicher als der stärkste von außen.
Ardinghell and the Blessed Islands (1787).
Les roys et princes en sont trop plus forts, quand ils l'entreprennent du consentement de leurs subjets, et en sont plus craints de leurs ennemis.
Bk. V, ch. 19.
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