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"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."
Care

"Understand both yourself and your enemy, and you shall always emerge victorious."
Strategy

"When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home."
Strategy

"Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected."
Strategy

"The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach."
Leadership

"The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger."
Ethics

"Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men."
Success

"Danger has a bracing effect."
Adventure

"Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive."
Strategy

"If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive;and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attachedto you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be unless."
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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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"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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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."
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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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"Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good."
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"Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us."
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"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."
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