


This has often been attributed to Sun Tzu and sometimes to Niccolò Machiavelli or Petrarch, but there are no published sources yet found which predate its use by 'Michael Corleone' in The Godfather Part II (1974), written by Mario Puzo & Francis Ford Coppola: My father taught me many things. See more ideas about inspirational quotes, quotes, words. What is the quote about keeping your enemies close Quote by Niccol Machiavelli: Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer. Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. And he had done some introspection about the fact that he couldn't even take such a lovely place at face value but only liken it to such pop culture references. Explore Tami Andrewss board 'Keep your friend close and your enemies closer', followed by 111 people on Pinterest. Explore Tami Andrews's board 'Keep your friend close and your enemies closer', followed by 111 people on Pinterest. Then, just for a blessed few hours, he had climbed out of that chopper into the high, cold, piney air of Bhutan, and gone for a ramble in the king's Land Rover, and hiked up a misty mountain that had struck him as being straight from a 1970s album cover.
