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It is easy to love your friend, but sometimes the hardest lesson to learn is to love your enemy.

Sun Tzu

If quick, I survive. If not quick, I am lost. This is “death.
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Death Inspirational Lost Quick Strategy War
There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.
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Colour Combination Hue Inspirational Produce Seen
He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight
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Business Fight Inspirational Strategy Success War
If there is disturbance in the camp, the general’s authority is weak.
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Authority Business Disturb Strategy War Weakness
Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.
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Business Condition Constant Strategy War Water
If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
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Business Defeat Enemy Strategy Victory War
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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Battle Business Conquer Enemy Strategy War
Wheels of justice gind slow but grind fine.
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Business Justice One Liner Strategy War
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
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Business Darkness Fall Planning Strategy Thunder War
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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Fate Mystery Opponent Sound Strategy War
Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy’s purpose.
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Business Enemy Gain Strategy Success War
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.
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Battle Inspirational Life Strategy Success War
Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory; show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat.
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Business Defeat Secret Strategy Victory War
Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm.
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Attack Convince Enemy Overcome Strategy War
There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
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Benefit Nation War
Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
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Arrogant Encourage Inferior Pretend Strategy War

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