“Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.”
“…one enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good.”
Journal to Stella (30 June, 1711)
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Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet 1667–1745Related quotes
“why do our enemies shape us more than our friends?”
Source: The Dark Side of Love
“The doctor's aim is to do good, even to our enemies, so much more to our friends”
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.
Quoted in Eleanor Harris, The Real Story of Lucille Ball, ch. 1 (1954)
“We can do more good by being good than in any other way.”
P. 217.
Diary (14 July 1889)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)