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The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker suggests that the most thorough way to defeat an opponent is to turn hostility into friendship, so the enmity itself disappears. It's a shrewd, slightly ironic idea: kindness becomes a strategy, and the rival is removed by being won over rather than by being beaten.
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