A Quote by George Bernard Shaw
Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.
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Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend.
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
Do you wish to make of your enemy a friend? Then become a friend to your enemy.
Consider an enemy may become a friend.
An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.
What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things - either to lose your loan or lose your friend.
Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day.
To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise.
It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.
Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.
Friend, my enemy, I call you out. You, you, you there with a bad thorn in your side. You there, my friend, with a winning air. Who pawned the lie on me when he looked brassly at my shyest secret. With my whole heart under your hammer. That though I loved him for his faults as much as for his good. My friend were an enemy upon stilts with his head in a cunning cloud. -Dylan Thomas
If possible,
leave room for your enemy
to become your friend.
Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship
An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy coincided in the same person.
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