The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.
The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.
We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.
The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves.
We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.