When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.
SUN TZUIn battle, there are not more than two methods of attack–the direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers.
More Sun Tzu Quotes
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Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
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You have to believe in yourself.
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Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
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When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders.
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The wise warrior avoids the battle.
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Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.
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Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.
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It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
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The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a possible attack at several different points.
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Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate.
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If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
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Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.
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The worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation.
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Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
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What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.
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