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"Although deceit is detestable in all other things, yet in the conduct of war it is laudable and honorable; and a commander who vanquishes an enemy by stratagem is equally praised with one who gains victory by force."
"Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection."
"There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy."
"'Perfect' is the enemy of 'good enough'."
"A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself."
"Procrastinate strategically... Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity but it can be a valuable resource for creativity."
"Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it."
"The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time."
"If the enemy opens the door, you must race in."
"Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth."
"An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy."
"Whatever the hateful do to the hateful, or an enemy to an enemy, worse is the harm of a misguided mind directed at oneself."
"He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk."
"Soon after Marilyn died, I met Bobby Kennedy and he looked at me as if to say: 'I am your enemy'."
"It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty."
"Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer."
"You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks."
"The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer."
"Activity is the enemy of investment returns."
"My enemies make appointments at my tomb."
