Pay attention to your enemies. They spot your mistakes first.
Antisthenes, Diogenes Laertius, Lives 6
Pay attention to your enemies. They spot your mistakes first.
Antisthenes, Diogenes Laertius, Lives 6
The source
"Pay attention to your enemies. They spot your mistakes first." Antisthenes said it in Diogenes Laertius, Lives 6. Translated by C. D. Yonge, 1853.
"One should attend to one's enemies, for they are the first persons to detect one's errors"C. D. Yonge, 1853, Diogenes Laertius, Lives 6. Anecdote reported by Diogenes Laertius (3rd century AD).
Who said it
Antisthenes (c. 446–366 BC). Student of Socrates and forerunner of the Cynics.
Questions
- Who said "Pay attention to your enemies. They spot your mistakes first."?
- Antisthenes (c. 446–366 BC). Source: Diogenes Laertius, Lives 6.
- What is the original wording?
- One should attend to one's enemies, for they are the first persons to detect one's errors (C. D. Yonge, 1853). Translated by C. D. Yonge, 1853.
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