Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe. (Alexander Pope)

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Alexander Pope

Related topics

foe friend trust use

Related quotes

Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise, 'T was one of my most intimate enemies. View quote
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
There is a great Field-Marshal, my friend, who arrays our battalions; Let us to Providence trust, and abide and work in our stations. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
I sometimes think that ‘friend' is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet. View quote
Scott Lynch
The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust. View quote
Joanna Baillie
Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe! View quote
Alfred the Great