If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
SUN TZUPlan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.
More Sun Tzu Quotes
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Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster,
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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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Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
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Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.
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One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.
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Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy if possible.
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Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.
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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.
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The worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation.
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Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull. Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain.
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Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.
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Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
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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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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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To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.
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