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keep your friends close and your enemies even closer

13:35 on Mon 21/Jun/04 Who said it?

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paulz
(13:38 on Mon 21/Jun/04) Sun Tzu in The Art of War. By all accounts a classic
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andy hughes
(13:43 on Mon 21/Jun/04) It is also a line in 'The Godfather' - advice from Don Corleone to his son, also a classic.
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tartanwiz
(18:20 on Mon 21/Jun/04) I once heard a variation on it (don't know who originated it, but must have been a business shark), which goes like this: 'Keep your friends distant, keep your enemies close, and keep your worst enemies closest'.
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headlesspets
(22:24 on Mon 21/Jun/04) also - 'its better to have a camel in your tent weeing out than outside weeing in' Probably keats who said that
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smudge
(16:40 on Tue 22/Jun/04) Never a truer word spoken - on both sayings!
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tad
(13:14 on Sat 26/Jun/04) Some people think the quote comes from interpretations of Machiavelli's work. (The first great political philosopher of the Renaissance. Florence, Italy. 1469-1527).
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bismark
(21:40 on Tue 20/Jul/04) The way i see it this quote is a general proverb. It could have been said by anyone. Possibly the politicla genius of Otto von Bismark who often was friendly to enemies (Austria) or perhaps Al Capone. It was a wise man indeed though. And he knew that some people just shoulnt be trusted.
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MohammedSule
(14:23 on Wed 22/Sep/04) Machiavelli

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