Sun Tzu Quotes, War Quotes

All war is deception.

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Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow.

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When you do battle, even if you are winning, if you continue for a long time it will dull your forces and blunt you edge...If you keep your armies out in the field for a long time, your supplies will be insufficient. Transportation of provisions itself consumes 20 times the amount transported.

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However desperate the situation and circumstances, don't despair. When there is everything to fear, be unafraid. When surrounded by dangers, fear none of them. When without resources, depend on resourcefulness. When surprised, take the enemy by surprise.

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Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision.

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He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.

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If their forces are substantial, prepare for them; if their forces are strong, avoid them.

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In the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

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In conflict, straightforward actions generally lead to engagement, surprising actions generally lead to victory.

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It is according to the shapes that I lay the plans for victory, but the multitude does not comprehend this. Although everyone can see the outward aspects, none understands the way in which I have created victory.

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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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The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only be derived, in the first instance, from the converted spy. Hence it is essential that the converted spy be treated with the utmost liberality.

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Do not engage an enemy more powerful than you. And if it is unavoidable and you do have to engage, then make sure you engage it on your terms, not on your enemy's terms.

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And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.

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There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.

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There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. Thus, to take a long and circuitous route after enticing the enemy out of the way, and though starting after him to contrive to reach the goal before him, shows knowledge of the artifice of deviation.

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Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

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Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.

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When the enemy is at ease, be able to weary him; when well fed, to starve him; when at rest, to make him move. Appear at places to which he must hasten; move swiftly where he does not expect you.

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He who knows things, and in fighting puts his knowledge into practice, will win his battles. He who knows them not, nor practices them, will surely be defeated.

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