One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.

One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.

When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.

When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.

Let my enemies devour each other.

Let my enemies devour each other.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

I wish my deadly foe no worse, Than want of friends, and empty purse.

I wish my deadly foe no worse, Than want of friends, and empty purse.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare read more

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down read more

Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction.

There is no little enemy.

There is no little enemy.