keep your enemies close, keep your friends far?
By megaplaza
@megaplaza (1441)
Nigeria
May 28, 2008 7:51am CST
That was a quote i saw in the book,"the mafian manager" by V. ever since then i was wondering about that statement and again i saw in the book 48 laws of power which says trust your enemy, he has more to proof, dont trust a friend, a friend betrayal kills a hero.
3 responses
@dodoguy (1292)
• Australia
28 May 08
Hi megaplaza,
It sounds like those maxims might be a bit difficult to live by.
In fact, it sounds a lot like "treat your friends as your enemies, and your enemies as your friends".
I can't see how anyone who lives like that can actually have any friends at all. Anyone in their right mind would stay the hell away from someone like that - they'd be downright dangerous!
Perhaps what it means is don't trust friends with anything important - but it still gets back to the same thing, that's an awfully lonely and solitary life we're talking about here.
Maybe the Mafia doesn't know any other way to do things, but there's got to be a better way to live than that.
@megaplaza (1441)
• Nigeria
28 May 08
does friends relly matters in this life, i hate it when friends betray me, i prefer to be stab by an enemy rather than a friend, but just know that it takes a miracle for a friend not to be jealousy of another friends success.
@grammasnook (1871)
• United States
28 May 08
I have never heard of that saying before, The one I know of was
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Which in essence to me meant watch them closely and always keep your guard up whether friend or foe!
@Sarduspater (64)
• Spain
28 May 08
True!! you can always count on your enemy in the sense that a friend can betray you but a enemy you always know what are his feeling to you
