Enemies
group · 7 works · 11 mentions · 15 anchored passages
enemies · enemy · adversaries · al-aʻdāʼ · al-khuṣūm · armed men · conspirators · enmity · foes · open enemies
in the texts
Memorabilia
Opposing forces in the possible Athenian war.
Or do you count the life and death struggle with their enemies, upon which, it may be, the Athenians will enter, but a small thing?
It is just to do such things to enemies, but it is unjust to do them to friends, towards whom one’s conduct should be scrupulously honest.
Whom would enemies rather trust in the matter of a truce or treaty or terms of peace?
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
Adversaries as a class, handled by dissimulation, restraint from abuse, and the hoarding of their faults against need.
And know that not every enmity is repaid in kind — treachery, for instance.
And do not tell him that you are his enemy, for then you gladden him with your grief, drive him to arm himself against you, and kindle his fire upon you.
Whoever is heavy upon his friend is light in his enemy's eyes.
Hiero
Opponents, foes, conspirators, and hostile subjects whose existence undermines the despot's apparent power.
You said that you envy us our unrivalled power to confer benefits on our friends, and our unrivalled success in crushing our enemies.
moreover you have servants many in number and excellent in accomplishments and you are rich in power to harm enemies and reward friends.
Or again, how can you say that despots more than others are able to crush enemies, when they know well that all who are subject to their despotism are their enemies and that it is impossible to put them all to death or imprison them—else who will be left for the despot to rule over?
Against Androtion
Opponents of Athens whose defeat grounds the city's inherited glory.
To dedicate those buildings they did not tithe themselves, nor fulfil the imprecations of their enemies by doubling the income-tax, nor was their policy ever guided by such advisers as you.
Against Lacritus
Hostile parties to whom payments might justify a deduction.
and, if the goods are brought safe to Athens, the borrowers are to pay to the lenders the money due in accordance with the agreement within twenty days after they shall have arrived at Athens, without deduction save for such jettison as the passengers shall have made by common agreement, or for money paid to enemies;
To Nicocles
Enemies are civic opponents whose attacks on faults can contribute to ordinary people's moral correction.
furthermore, freedom of speech and the privilege which is openly granted to friends to rebuke and to enemies to attack each other’s faults;
Economics
Enemies are a group whose status as possessions or wealth depends on whether a person can derive profit from them.
Yes, and it follows from what you say that enemies too are wealth to anyone who can derive profit from them.
Consequently it is the business of a good estate manager to know how to deal with enemies so as to derive profit from them too.
Indeed, open enemies may be gentlemen, and when they enslave us, may, by chastening, purge us of our faults and cause us to live better lives in future.