Clever Combatant Quotes by Sun Tzu

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• Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.
• All war is deception.
• One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.
• To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad…
• This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there…
• Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.
• He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
• He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
• For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.
• In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter…
• Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people…
• All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is…

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