A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.