If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Topic

Enemies Empathy

Author

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source

Table-Talk (Longfellow) Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Language

English

Time

1857 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United States

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Original Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "Table-Talk." Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Vol. 1. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1857.

Current Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "Table-Talk." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000.

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Language
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Time
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Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be defeated.

Sun Tzu

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Sun Tzu
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Medium
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Genre
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Statement Type
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Language
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Time
475 BC 470s BC 5th century BC
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Original Citation

Sun Tzu. 孫子兵法 [The Art of War]. c. 475 BC, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Sun Tzu. The Art of War: The Essential Translation of the Classic Book of Life, translated by John Minford. Penguin Classics, 2009, ch. 3.