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Enemy Quotes by Sun Tzu
- Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.
- 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 is better than…
- This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there is a road…
- 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.
- 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 and destroy it…
- For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme…
- It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them…
- When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
- The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
- To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape.
- If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
- When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before…
- Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
- Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots.
- If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep…
- Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men.
- When a general, unable to estimate the enemy's strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls a weak detachment against a…
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