Here is a very moving excerpt from Phenomenology of Spirit by Hegel, and a sentiment which I share with regards to the difficulties involved in truly loving your enemy:
"Virtue is not merely like the combatant who, in the conflict, is only concerned with keeping his sword bright, but it has even started the fight in order to preserve the weapons. And not only can it not use its own weapons, it must also preserve intact those of the enemy and protect them against its own attack, for all are noble parts of the good, on behalf of which it went into battle." (Hegel, 232)
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