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Enemy Quotes by Miyamoto Musashi
- When the enemy starts to collapse you must pursue him without the chance of letting go. If you fail to take advantage of your enemies…
- Do not let your spirit be influenced by your body, or your body be influenced by your spirit. Be neither insufficiently spirited or over spirited.…
- When you appreciate the power of nature, knowing the rhythm of any situation, you will be able to hit the enemy naturally and strike naturally.
- Cutting down the enemy is the way of strategy, and there is no need for many refinements of it.
- To cut and slash are two different things. Cutting, whatever form of cutting it is, is decisive, with a resolute spirit. Slashing is nothing more…
- If you fail to take advantage of your enemies' collapse, they may recover.
- In contests of strategy it is bad to be led about by the enemy. You must always be able to lead the enemy about.
- If the enemy stays spirited it is difficult to crush him.
- You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.
- The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit,…
- Know your enemy, know his sword.
- If you do not control the enemy, the enemy will control you
- To become the enemy, see yourself as the enemy of the enemy
- The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions
- When you decide to attack, keep calm and dash in quickly, forestalling the enemy...attack with a feeling of constantly crushing the enemy, from first to…
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