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Enemies are so stimulating.

—Katharine Hepburn, 1969

When a coward sees a man he can beat, he becomes hungry for a fight.

—Chinua Achebe, 1960

With the dead there is no rivalry.

—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1839

How can we bear misfortune most easily? If we see our enemies faring worse.

—Thales of Miletus, c. 585 BC

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746

We die of comfort and by conflict live.

—May Sarton, 1953

I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!

—Willa Cather, 1915

It is permitted to learn even from an enemy.

—Ovid, c. 8

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.

—Karl Kraus, 1912

From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.

—Herman Melville, 1851

Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?

—Amy Lowell, 1922

No one wins a quarrel by quarreling.

—German proverb

Envy and hatred are apt to blind the eyes and render them unable to behold things as they are.

—Margaret of Valois, c. 1600