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"Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us."
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"I hate admitting that my enemies have a point."
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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."
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"When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies."
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"I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must."
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"I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you."
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"If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near."
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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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"All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault."
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"There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good."
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"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."
Books
"Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money."
Money
"The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil."
Tranquility
"Any man may make a mistake none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says."
Philosophy
"O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life."
Philosophy
"As in the case of wines that improve with age the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful."
Companionship
"Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself."
Trust
"My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable."
Stoicism
"There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it."
Nothing
"The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free."
Justice
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