Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.
SUN TZUTo 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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Every battle is won before it’s ever fought.
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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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Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits.
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It is easy to love your friend, but sometimes the hardest lesson to learn is to love your enemy.
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Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him.
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Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.
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One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.
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The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.
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The wise warrior avoids the battle.
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Who wishes to fight must first count the cost
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Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.
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If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
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If quick, I survive. If not quick, I am lost. This is “death.
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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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He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
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