“Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession. ”
“It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”
“It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.”
“...for if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of looking after themselves.”
“Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.”
“Maybe . . . it's easier to have enemies than not to have them. . . . If you don't hate people, you have to learn to like them. . . . And liking people? That's not easy.”