"No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy."

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"No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy."

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"Better is the enemy of good."

Voltaire, French Writer

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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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths."

William James, American Philosopher

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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."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"I hate admitting that my enemies have a point."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year."

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"England expects that every man will do his duty."

Duty

"First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can."

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"If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting."

Power

"I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!"

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"Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil."

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"In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them."

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"Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be."

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"Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty."

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"Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made."

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