When the opportunity presents its-self, one should make peace with an enemy; and when the time comes, one should make war with even a friend. Those, who are well read in peace and war, say that one should conduct hiinself thus, O king.
कालन रिपुणा संधिः काले मित्रेण विग्रहः॥ कार्य इत्ये व संधिज्ञाः प्राहुर्नित्यं नराधिप।