Speak no ill of a friend, nor even of an enemy.
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As quoted by Diogenes Laėrtius, i. 78.Pittacus of Mytilene
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An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.
Anthony Trollope
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, so that makes Google my best friend.
Marc Benioff
We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls "enemy," for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers [...] I have tried in these last few minutes to give a voice to the voiceless in Vietnam and to understand the arguments of those who are called "enemy" [...] Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak of the for the poor of America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home, and death and corruption in Vietnam.
Martin Luther King
To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.
Anthony Trollope
Epops: The wise can often profit by the lessons of a foe, for caution is the mother of safety. It is just such a thing as one will not learn from a friend and which an enemy compels you to know. To begin with, it's the foe and not the friend that taught cities to build high walls, to equip long vessels of war; and it's this knowledge that protects our children, our slaves and our wealth.
Leader of the Chorus [leader]: Well then, I agree, let us first hear them, for that is best; one can even learn something in an enemy's school.
(tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)Aristophanes
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