"Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive."

Knight, George A. on war
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"The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on war   

"Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice."

Shaw, George Bernard on war   

"A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on."

Unknown, Source on war
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"Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame."

Cicero, Marcus T. on shame   

"What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid."

Collingwood, Robin G. on shame   

"The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone."

Kundera, Milan on shame   

"Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame."

Lyly, John on shame   

"I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed."

Swift, Jonathan on shame
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"Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on deception
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"Self-control in emotion is most difficult to master. Refusing the dictatorship of capricious emotion, I have found that the ability to exhibit the right emotion often resides with acting on the hard choice."

Vanderlinden, Natasha on self control
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"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person."

Anderson, Margaret on love
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"No man should ever display his bravery unless he is prepared for battle, nor bear the marks of defiance, until he has experienced the abilities of his enemy."

Hitopadesa on enemies
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"If it looks like shit, smells like shit, mail it to your enemy... he'll know what to do with it."

Horton, Doug on enemies   

"Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him."

Jones, Ernest on enemies
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"Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."

King, Stephen on enemies
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"Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on enemies   

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"Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against."

Lee, Bruce on enemies
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"The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself."

Miller, Henry on enemies
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"He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on enemies
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"Bear patiently with a rival."

Ovid on enemies   

"Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing."

Proverb on enemies
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"The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him."

Proverb, Chinese on enemies
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"It pays to know the enemy -- not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend."

Thatcher, Margaret on enemies
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"Speak well of your enemies... you made them."

Unknown, Source on enemies
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"If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum."

Unknown, Source on enemies   

"In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

Voltaire on enemies
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"Enemies are so stimulating."

Hepburn, Katharine on enemies
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"There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck."

Euripides on enemies
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"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."

Ford, Henry on simplicity
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"Nothing is true, but that which is simple."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on simplicity   

"Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on simplicity
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"The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor."

Adams, Douglas on enemies
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"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."

Aesop on enemies
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"There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES."

Aesop on enemies
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"Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults."

Antisthenes on enemies
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"Wise men learn many things from their enemies."

Aristophanes on enemies
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"Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you. [Matthew]"

Bible on enemies
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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."

Blake, William on enemies
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"Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards."

Dickson, R A on enemies