"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."
— Vito Corleone
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Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
About this quote
Though popularly attributed to Vito Corleone, this line is actually spoken by Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) in The Godfather Part II (1974), directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Michael attributes the wisdom to his father. The saying is often traced to Sun Tzu's The Art of War, and Machiavelli expressed a similar idea in The Prince — making this one of cinema's most famous instances of wisdom being passed down through a fictional lineage.
Source
The Godfather Part II (1974), spoken by Michael Corleone, attributed to Vito's teachings
