"No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries."
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"I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer."
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"Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing."
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"The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him. Be attentive, but don't be paranoiac."
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"Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone."
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"Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation."
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"He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger."
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"The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within."
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"When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne"
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"Complexity is the enemy of execution!"
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"A crafty enemy will set a weak ambush you are meant to break through. Confident because you have dealt with the threat, your guard relaxed, you walk into the second, stronger ambush."
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"If you follow the enemy's shifts and changes, you can always find a way to win."
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"To Subdue an enemy without fighting is the greatest of skills"
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"Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something he cherishes and he will conform to your desires."
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"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."
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"Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone."
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"Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion."
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"Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love."
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"...I recognize the widest possible difference-so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other."
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"Love your enemies, for they determine who you are."
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