No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.


Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text (ed. Tuttle Publishing, 2012) - ISBN: 9781462905126

Sun Tzu Quotes

No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.

No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.

No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.

No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.