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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.
One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.
Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down read more
Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction.
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice ... you feel ... read more
To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice ... you feel ... in yourself.
Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
