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Great Quotes by Sun Tzu
- 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…
- The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling the forces of victory, and…
- If you are situated at a great distance from the enemy, and the strength of the two armies is equal, it is not easy to…
- We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) entangling ground; (3) temporising ground; (4) narrow passes; (5) precipitous heights; (6)…
- Great results, can be achieved with small forces.
- One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.
- Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow.
- In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.
- It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and…
- If asked how to cope with a great host of the enemy in orderly array and on the point of marching to the attack, I…
- Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.
- Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small. The difficult things in this world must be…
- Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow...they have form…
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