“A weak invention of the enemy.”
Act V, scene 3. Similar thought in William Shakespeare, King Richard III.
Richard III (altered) (1700)
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“Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.”
Fuyez un ennemi qui sait votre défaut.
Néarque, act I, scene i.
Polyeucte (1642)
“Best way to find the weakness of the enemy is to understand their ways.”
Source: Froi of the Exiles
“A weak enemy in the fortress is more fearsome than the strongest outside.”
Ein schwacher Feind in der Festung ist fürchterlicher als der stärkste von außen.
Ardinghell and the Blessed Islands (1787).
“Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.”
Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Water Book
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Ur-Fascism (1995)
Context: The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.
Dr. K.B. Hedgewar, Quoted from Talreja, K. M. (2000). Holy Vedas and holy Bible: A comparative study. New Delhi: Rashtriya Chetana Sangathan.