"When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping."

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"When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping."

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"I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies."

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"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."

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

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosophers. They use their enemies to challenge their arguments so that they can know the weak points in their own reasoning and how to argue for and strengthen their position. There are just none like one's enemies to always look for his mistakes and do it harder than anyone else."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it."

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"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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