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Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.
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Set the troops to their tasks without imparting your designs.
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Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
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Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits.
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Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot.
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Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of business.
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Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.
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The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds.
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Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.
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He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
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In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.
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He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.
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Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.
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To maintain an army at a distance causes the people to be impoverished.
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What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
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As water has no constant form, there are in war no constant conditions.
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The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
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Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men.
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Hence the saying: One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.
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There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefitted.
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So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.
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Unless you enter the tiger's lair, you cannot get hold of the tiger's cub's.
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Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling.
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One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.
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If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are.
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If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle
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The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.
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If you follow the enemy's shifts and changes, you can always find a way to win.
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He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.
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Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence.
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Sun Tzu
Born:
543 BC
Died:
495 BC
(aged 48)
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