William Shakespeare on Enemies

“That you have many enemies, that know not Why they are so, but, like to village-curs, Bark when their fellows do.”

“I do believe, Induced by potent circumstances, that You are mine enemy; and make my challenge You shall not be my judge.”

“Be advis'd; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running.”

“I do defy him, and I spit at him; Call him a slanderous coward and a villain: Which to maintain I would allow him odds, And meet him, were I tied to run afoot Even to the frozen ridges of the Alps.”

“In cases of defence 'tis best to weigh The enemy more mighty than he seems; So the proportions of defence are fill'd; Which of a weak and niggardly projection Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat with scanting A little cloth.”