Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

—André Maurois

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

—André Maurois

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

—André Maurois

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.

—André Maurois

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity—romantic love and gunpowder.

—André Maurois

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

—Ali ibn-Abi-Talib

The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

—Aesop

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

—W. L. George

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

—G. K. Chesterton