“Enemies,' the wizard said, 'are the price of honour.”
Terry Goodkind book Debt of Bones
Source: Debt of Bones
“more enemies, more honour.”
— Robert Harris, book Archangel
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Act I, scene II. — (Polinico).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 432.
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Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 483
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“An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes.”
Rodolfo Graziani (1882–1955) Italian general
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“The stronger is the enemy, the more
Easily is the vanquished side excused.”
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Sempre che l'inimico è più possente,
Più chi perde accettabile ha la scusa.
Canto XXIV, stanza 32 (tr. W. S. Rose)
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“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
The Bonhoeffer Reader https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Bonhoeffer_Reader/CNZgAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA766, p. 766 <br class="br">Letters and Papers from Prison (1967; 1997), On Stupidity
“There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.”
Cyril Connolly book Enemies of Promise
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.”
Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse (1746–1803) German writer
Ein schwacher Feind in der Festung ist fürchterlicher als der stärkste von außen.
Ardinghell and the Blessed Islands (1787).
Philippe de Commines book Mémoires
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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