“If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”
Moshe Dayan (1915–1981) Israeli military leader and politician
As quoted in Newsweek (17 October 1977)
“If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.”
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