A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

About Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in...

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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles… respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law… or, in a word justice.

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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

—Joseph Heller

Now the trumpet summons us again—not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are—but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"—a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.

—John F. Kennedy

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

—John F. Kennedy

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