It is easy to love your friend, but sometimes the hardest lesson to learn is to love your enemy.
SUN TZUConceal 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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If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
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So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.
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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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Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.
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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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The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
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The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
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If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.
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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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Great results, can be achieved with small forces.
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You have to believe in yourself.
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Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.
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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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Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
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Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.
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