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"No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves."
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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."

"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."

"The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander."

"It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough."

"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."
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"While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart."

"Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging."

"If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed."
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