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"Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view."
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"Some enemies are part and parcel of our lives, we cannot destroy them without risking our own survival."
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"Enemy: A friend whose mask has fallen."
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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."
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"Better is the enemy of good."
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"An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him."
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"We are our own worst enemy and make no mistake we are destroying ourselves."
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"If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons."
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"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."
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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."
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"The wise learn many things from their enemies."
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"A princely mind will undo a private family."
Family
"The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past."
History
"Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way."
Hope
"Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms."
People
"Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes."
Man
"They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money."
Money
"Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view."
Enemy
"If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers."
Law
"Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding."
Man
"There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it."
Business
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