“If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.”
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As quoted in Newsweek (17 October 1977)
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Pythagoras
(-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
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Marc Benioff
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You Can't Go Home Again (1940)