Natural Enemies

Famous quotes containing the words natural and/or enemies:

    “The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at work; else why should they affect to abuse human reason, to disparage natural religion, to traduce the philosophers as they universally do?”
    —George Berkeley (1685–1753)

    “There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one’s enemies as if they may one day become one’s friends; as it commonly happens, sooner or later, in the vicissitudes of political affairs.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)