… truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.

If the reason of your sleeplessness is competition, then you will make a successful businessman.

The worst weapon of your enemy, rival, competitor, distractor is creating self-doubt in you and/or your team. They cannot win you without first destroying your self-worth.

People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.

If there is one thing I can promise, that I can guarantee, it is not that I can protect my other allies from the same fate as Sage, it is not that I will not...

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.