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Conform to the enemy’s tactics until a favorable opportunity offers; then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive.
Sun TzuSun Tzu If quick, I survive. If not quick, I am lost. This is “death.
Sun TzuSun Tzu Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.
Sun TzuSun Tzu Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
Sun TzuSun Tzu Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.
Sun TzuSun Tzu The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
Sun TzuSun Tzu Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.
Sun TzuSun Tzu He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight
Sun TzuSun Tzu If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.
Sun TzuSun Tzu To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.
Sun TzuSun Tzu Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.
Sun TzuSun Tzu Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him.
Sun TzuSun Tzu He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
Sun TzuSun Tzu 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.
Sun TzuSun Tzu Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm.
Sun TzuSun Tzu In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.
Sun TzuSun Tzu
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