Seneca the Younger Quotes

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

If you're an enemy, I would love for you to be a fan, because I don't like enemies.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

This is the vow to those consumed by hatred. We have but one path—waging war on them to the death.

It takes years to turn enmity to amity.

On both sides, all should be forever forgotten and forgiven—what has from the beginning of the unrest, no matter how or where, from one side or the other, happened in terms of hostility

Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change.

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

I believe firmly in reconciliation among Vietnamese to avoid unnecessary shedding of the blood of Vietnamese.

We'll hold out our hand; they have to unclench their fist.

Forgiveness is better than revenge

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.

It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.