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Out Quotes by Sun Tzu
- All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
- 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…
- Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
- No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.
- The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals. Hence his ability to pick out the…
- Whoever is the first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy will be fresh for the fight... Therefore the clever combatant imposes…
- There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. Thus, to take…
- In a position of this sort, even though the enemy should offer us an attractive bait, it will be advisable not to stir forth, but…
- The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls is the relative size of…
- So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak. Water shapes its course according to the…
- No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. If…
- If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely traced…
- Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes its course according…
- 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 will…
- 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…
- All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we…
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