Sun Tzu Quotes, Art Quotes, War Quotes

What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations.

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Where the army is, prices are high; when prices rise the wealth of the people is exhausted.

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Bestow rewards without respect to customary practice; publish orders without respect to precedent. Thus you may employ the entire army as you would one man.

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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. If the enemy's troops march up angrily and remain facing ours for a long time without either joining battle or removing demands, the situation is one that requires great vigilance and circumspection. To begin by bluster, but afterward to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

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The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.

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Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

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Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

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When the position is such that neither side will gain by making the first move, it is called temporising ground.

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Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

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Without local guides, your enemy employs the land as a weapon against you.

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