“Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If you would keep your Secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none”
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
Winston Churchill
“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
Abraham Lincoln
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.”
“Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.”