If the Internal enemy of hatred is not tamed, when one tries to tame external enemies, they increase. Therefore, it is a practice of the wise to tame themselves by means of the forces of love and compassion.
He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept him up at night.
We are our best friend and worst enemy we wil ever fight with. Time is our enemy, but how can we fight even when time will wipe us out?
The Emergency Banking Act reached back in time to amend the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, which had originally been intended to criminalize economic intercourse between American citizens and declared enemies of the United States.
Lt. Colonel Nascimento: You know what this operation should be called? Officer: No, sir. Lt. Colonel Nascimento: Operation Iraq.
Deckard Shaw: The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Dominic Toretto: I don't have friends. I've got family. Deckard Shaw: Well, I've got lots of friends.
The friend who helps me and the enemy who does me no harm, make a pair of earrings.
A man need never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his own door.
You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks.
He who does not want to lend loses friends; he who lends gains enemies.
One enemy can harm you more than a hundred friends can do you good.
God defend me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself.
It is no great hermeneutic feat to recognize that Rome crucified Jesus because of His claim to be king. The charge was posted over His head, after all. What is often overlooked, however, is that it is precisely because of their allegiance to that kin...
The store of rice in your attic is your enemy -- it makes them who have none very jealous.
The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
Beryl, on death: “No, you should never choose death, but it chooses you. Sometimes you know it’s coming, like my mother, and sometimes it takes you by surprise, like my friend Ariel’s uncle who got killed in a hunting accident. Sooner or later,...
Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life. One of the great triumphs of learning (and of teaching) is to get things organised in your head in a way that permits you to know mor...
During my stay in the United States, I witnessed the spontaneous formation of committees in a country for the pursuit and prosecution of a man who had committed a great crime. In Europe, a criminal is an unhappy man who is struggling for his life aga...
The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects th...
They say in moments of great fear or desperation, a man will always make a choice—either to flee or face his enemy, but choice requires thought, and in the moment when you know for certain that death is stalking you with strides you cannot outrun, ...
Peter, who broke his enemies on the rack and hanged them in Red Square, who had his son tortured to death, is Peter the Great. But Nicholas, whose hand was lighter than that of any tsar before him, is "Bloody Nicholas". In human terms, this is irony ...
