And now for your next act,
drink the poison he gives you,
and make it look damned good.

Spiegel: Can you also get your revenge on him by using comedy?

To give the devil his due.

If you want to test a man's character, give him power.

If he has deserved no kindness, but just the opposite, because he has maddened you with his injuries and insults, even this is no reason why you should not surround him with your affection and show him all sorts of favors.

A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

If your enemy is a man of honour (...), yield to him; you may touch his heart, Perhaps win generous terms. If he´s a rat - beware!

villain must be stigmatized so that his opponents can be considered heroic.

Yield, and sufficient glory let it be
to have it said that you once fought with me.

According as the man is, so must you humor him.

When you honour a noble man, you own him, but if you honour an ignoble man, he rebels.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your friend.

You judge an enemy based on the amount of emotion they create.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.