#Maxim 19: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less
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The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries is a popular handbook in the Schlock Mercenary universe. The book's maxims are often quoted by Tagon, as well as other characters. The following is a list of the maxims found in Schlock Mercenary, ordered by maxim number. 1. Pillage, then burn.[1] 2. A Sergeant in motion outranks a Lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.[2] 3. An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.[3] 4. Close air support covers a multitude of...
Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 335ff (2.3.335-337) (19 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]
More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/33634/
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Whene'er you lecture, be concise: the soul Takes in short maxims, and retains them whole: But pour in water when the vessel's filled, It simply dribbles over and is spilled. [Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis, ut cito dicta percipiant animi dociles teneantque fideles: omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.] On teaching…