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"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."
"'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."
"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."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Laurence Sterne
"What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!"
"The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance."
"People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy."
"I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor."
"In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them."
"Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation."
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