When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.
SUN TZUWhat the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.
More Sun Tzu Quotes
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Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
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If you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner.
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There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of them yield more flavours than can ever be tasted.
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To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
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Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
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Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.
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The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
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Great results, can be achieved with small forces.
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To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
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Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
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Wheels of justice gind slow but grind fine.
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Those skilled at making the enemy move do so by creating a situation to which he must conform; they entice him with something he is certain to take, and with lures of ostensible profit they await him in strength.
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Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.
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He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
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So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.
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