Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

John Stuart Mill
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  1. The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  2. The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. - G.k. Chesterton

  3. The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  4. People who are two faced, usually forget which mask they are wearing at some point in their life. - Anthony T. Hincks

  5. The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies. - Laurell K. Hamilton

More Quotes By John Stuart Mill
  1. War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or...

  2. It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. But...

  3. If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

  4. In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny,...

  5. The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence...

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