Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster,
SUN TZUKnow your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster,
More Sun Tzu Quotes
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Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.
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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
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Who wishes to fight must first count the cost
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Do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat.
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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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The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
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In 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.
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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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Be where your enemy is not.
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Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever 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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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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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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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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Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
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Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.
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Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him.
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There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
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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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Disorder came from order, fear came from courage, weakness came from strength.
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There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.
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If his forces are united, separate them.
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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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There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.
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Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
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