A Quote by Aesop

The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.

Aesop

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Foes Friends Opportunities Quarrels

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Aesop
Greek - Author
620 BC - 564 BC

Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass; so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, any by my friends I am abused; so that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why then, the worse for my friends, and the better for my foes.

William Shakespeare

Anyone who asserted wrong teachings, anyone serving the devil or his demons, earned instead an equally remarkable antagonism. In their official high meetings together, Christians thus could not keep their own disagreements within the bounds of civil language; their continual quarrels required the intervention of the civil authorities; and all this was well known and noted by friends and foes alike.

Ramsay MacMullen

Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

ONCE remove the old arena of theological quarrels, and you will throw open the whole world to the most horrible, the most hopeless, the most endless, the most truly interminable quarrels; the untheological quarrels.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd.

John Dryden

Are we friends? or are we foes? ... That kind of thing... You decide... For yourselves!!!

Eiichiro Oda

Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes; To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes. For here though death doth end their misery, I'll there begin their endless tragedy.

Thomas Kyd

When all the arguments have been forgotten, this central fact will remain. The two nations fought a single war, and their quarrels were the quarrels of brothers.

Henry L. Stimson

I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.

Samuel Hoffenstein

No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.

William Jennings Bryan

our quarrels with the world are like our quarrels with God: no matter how right we are, we are wrong.

Randall Jarrell

The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that.