"Quickness is the essence of the war." — Sun Tzu

"Quickness is the essence of the war."

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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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The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
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The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a… — Eric Bana
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. — John Adams
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. — Jane Addams
Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you… — Glenn Beck
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate… — H. P. Blavatsky

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