"In a friend one should have ones..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.
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“The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.”
“Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!”
“In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.”
More on Friendship
“It is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends.”
“But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”
“A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.”
More on Conflict
“All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history of armed combat such affairs as the Mexican and Spanish-American Wars must be ranked, not as wars at all, but as organized assassinations. In the two World Wars, no American faced a bullet until his adversaries had been worn down by years of fighting others.”
“Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.”
“There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.”