A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
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.
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.
If you find someone who agrees with you 80 percent of the time that is your friend not your enemy.
I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.
A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
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.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.