If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they’re not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

Enemies are the people who think about you more than your friends do.

It is not an external enemy we dread. Our foe is shut up within ourselves. An internal warfare is daily waged by us.

God dramatically slew one monstrous opponent and then threw us into the arena against a stronger and more vicious foe.

A good enemy can be better than the best of friend.

A friend is the wax that keeps the flame lit, an enemy is the wind that blows it out.

If you need to find out who is your friend among many, stimulate a resolutive conflict.

A fool friend always does something that the enemy wishes.

As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one...

And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.

Pride can be friend, ego can be foe…depending on which one we choose, or not, to conquer.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.

Keep it simple; complexities are the worst enemies of man’s development

Your path is not my path. Should we meet at the crossroads and ye be a friend, tarry a while, drink some wine and let us laugh for a while. If ye be foe, continue...

And one day when you wake up, you happen to realise that your battle isn’t with the man you had got into a brawl with the other day, it isn’t with a friend turned foe,...