“It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies. ”
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Ernesto Che Guevara258
Argentine Marxist revolutionary 1928–1967Related quotes
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As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, i. 78.
“A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
“I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.”
Philip Larkin (1922–1985) English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian
“My friends, judge me by the enemies I have made.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
Speech made on the campaign trail in Portland, Oregon (21 September 1932)
1930s
“He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
No. 401
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
Source: Selected Essays, 1778-1830
