Sun Tzu Quotes

Keep their friends close and their enemies closer.

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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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When the leader is morally weak and his discipline not strict, when his instructions and guidance are not enlightened, when there are no consistent rules, neighboring rulers will take advantage of this.

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

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The height of strategy, is to attack your opponent's strategy.

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War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.

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If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached to you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be unless.

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Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.

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The true objective of war is peace.

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The line between disorder and order lies in logistics.

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And therefore only the enlightened sovereign and the worthy general who are able to use the most intelligent people as agents are certain to achieve great things.

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An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an army avoids strength and strikes weakness.

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The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without having to fight them.

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Be the first to seize intersecting ground, that is ground which lies the intersections of borders or intersections of main thoroughfares of commerce and travel. Your occupation of it gives you access to all who border it and all who would covet it. On intersecting ground, if you establish alliances you are safe, if you lose alliances you are in peril.

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In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

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In war, practice dissimulation and you will succeed.

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Kill one, terrify a thousand.

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If a battle can not be won do not fight it.

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Without harmony in the State, no military expedition can be undertaken; without harmony in the army, no battle array can be formed.

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If your enemy is superior, evade him

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