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Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many.
[Lat., Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo.]
Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many.
[Lat., Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo.]
Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him
drink: for in so doing thou shalt read more
Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him
drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his
head.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Whoever has fallen from his former high estate is in his calamity
the scorn even of the base.
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Whoever has fallen from his former high estate is in his calamity
the scorn even of the base.
[Lat., Quicumque amisit dignitatem pristinam
Ignavis etiam jocus est in casu gravi.]
You and I were long friends; you are now my enemy, and I am
yours.
You and I were long friends; you are now my enemy, and I am
yours.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Man is his own worst enemy.
[Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]
Man is his own worst enemy.
[Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]
Take her up tenderly,
Lift her with care;
Fashioned so slenderly,
Young and so read more
Take her up tenderly,
Lift her with care;
Fashioned so slenderly,
Young and so fair!
