Even a captured enemy is not to be trusted.

A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace.

Till the enemy's weakness is known, he should be kept on friendly terms.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

There are many people in England, and perhaps elsewhere, who seem to be unable to contemplate military operations for clear political objects, unless they can cajole themselves into the belief that their enemy are utterly and hopelessly vile.

The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.