Shakespeare

On Friends (Taken from the start of Act V from Twelfth Night)

Duke: I know thee well: how doust thou, my good fellow?

Clown: Truly, sir, the better for my foes and the worse for my friends.

Duke: Just the contrary; the better for your friends.

Clown: No, sir, the worse.

Duke: How can that be?

Clown: Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me; now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass: so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself; and by my friends I am abused: so that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why then, the worse for my friends, and the better for my foes.