Markings (1964)
“Doors are for those who lack enemies.”
“Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.”
Quoted in Ossipov, "Suvorov," 1945.
“It is right to learn even from an enemy.”
Fas est et ab hoste doceri.
Book IV, 428
Variant translations:
It is right to learn, even from the enemy.
Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.
It is right to be taught even by an enemy.
We can learn even from our enemies.
Metamorphoses (Transformations)
“Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait.”
Source: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
“A man with no enemies is a man with no character.”
Quoted in Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures, ed. Yann-Brice Dherbier and Pierre-Henri Verlhac (2006), p. 120
As quoted in Words of Wisdom : From the Greatest Minds of All Time (2004) by Mick Farren
Variant: If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.
“Even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins.”
161
The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)
“When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.”
The Freeholder, no. 42.
“It is so easy to be an enemy of the United States, but so difficult to be a friend.”
As quoted in a response to Anna Chennault in 1975
Langguth, A.J. Our Vietnam, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000 page 656.
