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"Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies."
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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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"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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"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."
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"Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it."
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"Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the U.S. military machine to turn."
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"Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies."
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"In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time."
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"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man."
Age
"If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes."
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"There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances."
Peace
"Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect."
Politics
"Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction."
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"England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases."
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"Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws."
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"If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes."
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