“Where there is no antagonist, you cannot quarrel.”
Japanese Proverb
“And in the air are no streets, no channels, no point where one can say of an antagonist, "If he wants to reach my capital he must come by here." In the air all directions lead everywhere.”
H. G. Wells
“No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.”
“God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil”
Epictetus
“The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author”
Benjamin Disraeli
“There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.”
Plato
