"A wise general makes a point of foraging…" — Sun Tzu

"A wise general makes a point of foraging of the enemy."

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407 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…
This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe…
Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's…
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;…
Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live.…
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which…

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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the… — Aristophanes
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over… — Aristotle
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have… — Francis of Assisi
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their… — Dean Acheson
Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately. — Alec Baldwin
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! — Honore de Balzac
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the… — Honore de Balzac
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies… — Edward Abbey
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. — Joseph Addison
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. — Konrad Adenauer
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear… — Ambrose Bierce
I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them. — Buffalo Bill

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