It is easy to love your friend, but sometimes the hardest lesson to learn is to love your enemy.
SUN TZUThere are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of them yield more flavours than can ever be tasted.
More Sun Tzu Quotes
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There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
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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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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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If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.
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He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight
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To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.
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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 supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
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Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
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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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If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
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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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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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In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.
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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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