
“Seu pior inimigo pode ser seu melhor amigo e seu melhor amigo, seu pior inimigo”
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
His response when "accused of treating his opponents with too much courtesy and kindness, and when it was pointed out to him that his whole duty was to destroy them", as quoted in More New Testament Words (1958) by William Barclay; either this anecdote or Lincoln's reply may have been adapted from a reply attributed to Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund:
:* Some courtiers reproached the Emperor Sigismond that, instead of destroying his conquered foes, he admitted them to favour. “Do I not,” replied the illustrious monarch, “effectually destroy my enemies, when I make them my friends?”
::* "Daily Facts" in The Family Magazine Vol. IV (1837), p. 123 http://books.google.de/books?id=aW0EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA123&dq=destroy; also quoted as simply in "Do I not effectually destroy my enemies, in making them my friends?" in The Sociable Story-teller (1846)
Disputed
“Seu pior inimigo pode ser seu melhor amigo e seu melhor amigo, seu pior inimigo”
“Não tem amigos o homem que nunca teve inimigos.”
He makes no friend who never made a foe
Idylls of the King - Página 179 http://books.google.com/books?id=R8ssIlkxZDQC&pg=PA179, de Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson - Publicado por Forgotten Books, 1862, ISBN 1605064807, 9781605064802 - 261 páginas
“Nós somos o próximo construído por amigos e inimigos.”
“Aos amigos tudo, aos inimigos a lei.”
revista Lua Nova, vol. 3, no. 1 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=sd1ohXt_fsgC
“Perdoe seus inimigos, mas não os confunda com um amigo.”