“Evitai um inimigo que está a par dos vossos defeitos.”
Pierre Corneille 37
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“Ama os teus inimigos, porque eles falam-te dos teus defeitos.”

“O advogado é um homem que salva os vossos bens dos inimigos, e os guarda para si.”
A lawyer is a learned gentleman, who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself
citado em "The Mirror of literature, amusement, and instruction" - Volume V, Página 268 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=szsYAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA268, 1844
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; for, as it surrounds us with friends, who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
Lacon, or, Many things in few words: addressed to those who think - Página 238 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=txAlAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA238, Charles Caleb Colton - 1836 - 504 páginas