Hire a former enemy
Hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove.
In fact you have more to fear form friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
Enemies teaches us more than friends, we tend to learn more by experiences than someone telling us to do something.
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Be aware of friends-they will betray you quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical(exercising power in a cruel or arbitrary way). But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend.
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