"Appear at points which the enemy must hasten……" — Sun Tzu

"Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected."

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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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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty… — Charles Baudelaire
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience… — Joseph Addison
And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words… — Venerable Bede
Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they… — Isaiah Berlin
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman. — Alfred Adler
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The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and… — Annie Besant

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