“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (Page 46)
“The greatest virtue is to do no evil, even to your enemies. If you respect yourself, you will not commit evil, even in the slightest way.”
Indian Wisdom, via A Calendar of Wisdom (Page 170)
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each man’s life a sorrow and a suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sunbeams (Page 19)
“The enemy is a very good teacher.” ~ the Dalai Lama, via The War of Art