Love your enemies...
...first take the log
out of your own eye.
-- Matthew 5:44, 7:5
How do you conquer an enemy?
First, you eradicate
all that strikes him as hostile
or self-interested in yourself,
so that he's no longer intent
on building a defense
against you, but lets
himself be vulnerable
to your influence.
Only when he finds
your way worth imitating,
will he be no more
an enemy, but brother.How do you make an enemy?
By attempting to make
a neighbor be like you.
-- Mahlon H. Smith
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