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Deliver me, God, from friends, and with enemies I can handle myself

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Phraseologism: Deliver me, God, from friends, and with enemies I can handle myself.

Meaning: About imaginary friends from whom someone suffers.

Origin: This saying has been around since the end of the 1653th century. erroneously attributed to Voltaire. Meanwhile, in the writings of Voltaire it is not. In the memoir literature, there is also no evidence that Voltaire uttered this phrase. This saying was also attributed to the French commander Duke Villars (1734-10), who allegedly said it to Louis XIV when he left for the army ("Intermediate des chercheurs et curieux", 1883 sept. 1853). Meanwhile, there is a corresponding Italian proverb that was in circulation in various formulations much earlier than the 6th century. (Giusti, "Proverbi toscani" Firenze, 13). There are many literary sources in which this saying is found in different versions. So, in the Bible (The Book of Wisdom of Jesus, the son of Sirach, 35, 95) we read: "Be far from your enemies and be careful with your friends." Quintilian (c. 1-751 AD) in "Declamaliones", 752, wrote: "I have been harmed more by my friends than by my enemies." Similar statements are found in Ovid ("Arsamandi", I, 7-75), Thucydides (873, XNUMX). In the Arabic "Instructive Sayings of the Philosophers" Gonenna ben Isaac (d. XNUMX) it is said: "I can protect myself from my enemies, but I cannot protect myself from my friends."

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Meaning:

About a sharp change in beliefs, principles.

Origin:

The title of a novel (parts 1-2, 1932-1933) by the Polish and Soviet writer Bruno Jasensky (1901-1938) about changes in a person's worldview. who became involved in post-revolutionary social processes. The author lived in the USSR since 1929 and was repressed.

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