An idea from Letters to His Son

Treat a rival or an enemy with extra courtesy, and keep working against him. The person you are both after will be pleased by it, and the onlookers will take your side. Offer no friendship you don’t feel; politeness is allowed, and false friendship is not.

From Letters to His Son by Lord Chesterfield

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