[lr4444lr]

I can't upvote this enough. As has been attributed to the Roman stoic Seneca: “An enemy is a bad witness to your merits, but a good one to your defects.”

[butlike]

Doesn't that just mean that the merits will be unspoken and implied by what the enemy is saying as they speak to your deficits?

If I'm short with a bad temper, then implicitly I'm NOT a bad enough public speaker, or that would have been mentioned top of mind.