#enemy

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. ↗

— Orson Welles

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As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.' ↗

— Duke of Wellington

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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

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Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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