"In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies."

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Friedrich Nietzsche, German 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."

"Some enemies are part and parcel of our lives, we cannot destroy them without risking our own survival."

"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."

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

"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."

"To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."

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

"Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it."

"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."

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"Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent."

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"In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian."

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