#48-laws-of-power #keys-to-power #law-2-never-trust-friends-learn-how-to-use-enemies
All working situations require a kind of distance between people. You are trying to work, not make friends; friendliness (real or false) only obscures that fact.
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Open itmelled so.” Thus it is plain that faults that are evident to the senses, gross and corporal, or otherwise notorious to the world, we know by our enemies sooner than by our friends and familiars.
PLUTARCH, C. A.D. 46-120
<span>All working situations require a kind of distance between people. You are trying to work, not make friends; friendliness (real or false) only obscures that fact. The key to power, then, is the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests in all situations. Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.
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