Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

ἀγαπᾶτε τοὺς ἐχθροὺς ὑμῶν καὶ προσεύχεσθε ὑπὲρ τῶν διωκόντων ὑμᾶς·

Jesus

Matthew 5:44

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 5:44).

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Another quote about Enemies

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

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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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Another quote from Classical antiquity

The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.

Juvenal

Satires

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Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 10.

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Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 10.

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Another quote originally in Greek

You know as well as we do that right, as the word goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

Thucydides

History of the Peloponnesian War

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Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 431 BC, bk. 5.

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Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War, translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 5.

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Another quote of the following type Orders and commands

And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.