Diogenes Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

  Diogenes

  Friendship, Good Friend, Men

• If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.

  Diogenes

  Good Friend, Enemy, Hot

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch, circa 100 AD.

• Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.

  Diogenes

  Dog, Order, Enemy

  "Anthology (Book 3)". Book by Joannes Stobaeus, 1536.

• To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.

  Diogenes

  Friendship, Men, Should Have

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