as brandon watched the squad car remove sterling from his less-than-adoring public , he thought about two quotes he had learned in chinese and latin classes : keep your friends close , and your enemies closer don vito corleone , the godfather , often misattributed to sun-tzu ( 544-496 bc ) , the art of war verbum sapienti satis est [ a word to the wise is sufficient ] publius terentius afer aka terence ( 195-159 b.c .