If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)

One does not make peace with one's friends. One makes peace with one's enemy.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her

A second thing that an individual must do in seeking to love his enemy is to discover the element of good in his enemy, and everytime you begin to hate that person and think of hating that person, realize that there is some good there and look at those good points which will over-balance the bad points.

Do not make an enemy of anyone until you know what there is between him and God! If he is good, God will not leave him to you and if he is bad, then your knowing of his badness will make you safe from him and so you do not need to make him your enemy.

The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.

To combat an adversary, become their friend.

To become the enemy, see yourself as the enemy of the enemy

I think a man cannot strive wholeheartedly with an enemy unless he have much in common with him, and as the strife goes on he gets liker.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

We plan alone but we fulfill our plans together with the enemy, as it were, in accordance with his opposition.

Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves. If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on inside us also, so the most basic work for peace is to return to ourselves and create harmony among the elements within us — our feelings, our perceptions, and our mental states.