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• Bear patiently with a rival.

  Ovid

  Patience, Rivals, Bears

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• Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

  Publilius Syrus

  Advice, Might, Treats

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 401, 1856.

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• In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Exercise, Organization

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• The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

  George Orwell

  Truth, Real, Political Language

  "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

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• Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.

  Ben Nicholson

  Fall, Worst Enemy, Tyrants

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• The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.

  Abraham Lincoln

  World, Friends And Enemies, Knows

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.

  Bill Vaughan

  Blow, Wind, Generations

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• If you find someone who agrees with you 80 percent of the time that is your friend not your enemy.

  John Ensign

  Agree, Percent, Ifs

  "John Ensign's Unapologetic Critique". voices.washingtonpost.com. April 23, 2009.

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• Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

  Joseph Addison

  Happiness, Literature, Virtue

  Joseph Addison (1793). “A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments”, p.378

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• Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Philosophical, Judging

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• Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Reality, Men, Worst Enemy

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1428, Barbour Publishing

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• In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Work, Creativity, Ideas

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.127, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Friendship, Real, Intention

  "What Will He Do With It?" Bk. III, Heading to Ch. XVII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 517), 1922.

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• Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Fate, Experts

  "The Art of War". Chapter VI: Weaknesses and Strengths. Translated by Chow-Hou Wee, 2003.

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• If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, War, Inspiration

  Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

  Henry Fielding

  Wine, Alcohol, Firsts

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• They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for himself, but for his character, for his integrity and judgment and iron will; but they love him most for the enemies he has made.

  Edward S. Bragg

  Integrity, Character, Iron

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• Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me.

  Robert Southey

  Heaven, Earth

  Robert Southey (1829). “Poetical Works of Robert Southey. Complete in One Volume”, p.430

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• If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely traced out on the ground. All we need to do is to throw something odd and unaccountable in his way.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Fighting

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Feminism, Body

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.111, Vintage

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• We have met the enemy, and it is us.

  Glenda Gilmore

  Mets

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• Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Feelings

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• The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.

  Dalai Lama

  Patience, Conditions

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.129, Penguin

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• If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, War, Greatest Victory

  Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.

  Guy Ritchie

  Ideas

  "Revolver - Guy Ritchie interview" compiled by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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