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.
SUN TZULet your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
More Sun Tzu Quotes
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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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One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.
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Those skilled at making the enemy move do so by creating a situation to which he must conform; they entice him with something he is certain to take, and with lures of ostensible profit they await him in strength.
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When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
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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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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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To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
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Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy’s purpose.
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Never venture, never win!
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Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.
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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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Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
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If his forces are united, separate them.
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If there is disturbance in the camp, the general’s authority is weak.
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One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.
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