One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'd rather trust nine people and have the 10th one stab me in the back. I'd take that fall in order to have those nine friendships or working relationships instead of having none. That's not living.
Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.
Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.
A strong foe is better than a weak friend.
In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself.
In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.