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Day 5:

  • Without a worthy opponent, a man or group cannot grow stronger.
  1. Be certain that in the long run you will emerge victorious. Never pick a fight with someone you are not sure you can defeat.
  2. If you have no apparent enemies, you must sometimes set up a convenient target, even turning a friend into an enemy.
  3. Use such enemies to define your cause more clearly to the public, even framing it as a struggle of good against evil.

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The more one seeks to rise into height and light, the more vigorously do ones roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep — into evil.

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