An enemy who becomes a friend will always be a friend; a friend turned enemy will remain so forever.

Today's enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies.

Transformation: Compassion and loving kindness can transform an enemy into a friend, while right view and wisdom can transform suffering into happiness.

JUDGMENT Be wary of friends — they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.

do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

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

I defeat my enemies when I make them my friends.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your friend.

It was astonishing how quickly friendship could turn to enmity, she thought, like a compass needle swinging from one pole to the other.
They’d been excellent friends. They’d make excellent enemies as well.

Shall not I
Learn place and wisdom? Have I not learned this,
Only so much to hate my enemy,
As though he might again become my friend,
And so much good to wish to do my friend,
As knowing he may yet become my foe?

Foil hatred with goodness and love and make those enemy your true friends!