Enemy
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While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.
We've waged war on work. We have collectively agreed, stupidly, that work is the enemy.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as an nation, and it's a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy.
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
Balk the enemy's power; force him to reveal himself.
It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
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