“When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“These military devices, leading to victory, must not be divulged beforehand.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“first lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle; if you will not begin with stratagem but… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“When an invading force crosses a river in its onward march, do not advance to meet it in mid-stream. It will be… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory; show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent,… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country --… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull. Such an opponent, must not be encountered… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“If we wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, we must not fix our minds on that alone, but allow for… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“took part in the expedition, and also that its success was largely due to the dash and enterprise of Fu Kai, Ho… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Be the first to seize intersecting ground, that is ground which lies the intersections of borders or intersections of main thoroughfares of… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Be stern in the council-chamber, [Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the sovereign.] so that you may… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
It is according to the shapes that I lay the plans for victory, but the multitude does not comprehend this. Although everyone can see… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“In a similar way, The Art of War pinpoints anger and greed as fundamental causes of defeat.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“The PEOPLE being regarded as the essential part of the State, and FOOD as the people's heaven, is it not right that those in… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
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