“Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
“…one enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good.”
Journal to Stella (30 June, 1711)
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“why do our enemies shape us more than our friends?”
Rafik Schami (1946) German writer
Source: The Dark Side of Love
“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. <br class="br">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.
Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman
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.”
Rowland Hill (preacher) (1744–1833) British preacher
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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)
