The World Motivation
If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.
“If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.”
If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.
Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.
By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.
I have a lot of enemies: extremists and the Syrian regime.
When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty, or when our enemies prevail against us, or when sickness is not healed, the enemy of our souls can send his evil message that there is no God or that if He exists He does not care about us.
My mother and our pastor always said you have to pray for your enemies and people who do you wrong, and that's what I did.
I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.