It is better off to know who and where your opponents are than to not know where your real enemies lie.Use enemies to define your cause more clearly to the public, even framing it as a struggle of good against evil.Whenever you can, bury the hatchet with an enemy, and make a point of putting him in your service.Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.Friends often conceal things in order to avoid conflict this can be dangerous.If you have no enemies, find a way to make them. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies.
But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove.
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Never put too much trust in friends, learn how to use enemies.īe wary of friends-they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. Make your masters appear more brilliant than they are and you will attain the heights of power. In your desire to please and impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite-inspire fear and insecurity. Never outshine the master.Īlways make those above you feel comfortably superior.