The wise warrior avoids the battle.
SUN TZUPretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
More Sun Tzu Quotes
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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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Never venture, never win!
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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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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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Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.
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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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When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is gloomy.
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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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When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
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Disorder came from order, fear came from courage, weakness came from strength.
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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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Conform to the enemy’s tactics until a favorable opportunity offers; then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive.
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The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.
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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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