Sun Tzu Quotes

Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer.

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Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

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All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

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Kill one, terrify a thousand.

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Those who do not know the plans of competitors cannot prepare alliances. Those who do not know the lay of the land cannot maneuver their forces. Those who do not use local guides cannot take advantage of the ground.

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In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.

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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

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In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise: which of the two generals has the most ability? on which side is Discipline most rigorously enforced? which army is stronger? on which side are the officers and men more highly trained? in which army is there the greater constancy both in reward and punishment?

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Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.

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Now a soldier's spirit is keenest in the morning; by noonday it has begun to flag; and in the evening, his mind is only on returning to camp.

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Of all rewards none [is] more liberal than those given to secret agents.

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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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So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.

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When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal.

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The best general is the one who never fights.

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The dance of battle is always played to the same impatient rhythm. What begins in a surge of violent motion is always reduced to the perfectly still.

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The control of large numbers is possible, and like unto that of small numbers, if we subdivide them.

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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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Keep their friends close and their enemies closer.

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Unless you know the mountains and the forests, the defiles and impasses, the lay of the marshes and swamps, you cannot maneuver with an armed force. Unless you use local guides, you cannot get the advantages of the land.

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