"These are the six ways of courting defeat……" — Sun Tzu
"These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger; nonobservance of discipline; failure to use picked men..."
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407 Quotes by Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu has 407 quotes on this site.
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Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.
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All war is deception.
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One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.
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To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or…
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This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe…
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Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's…
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He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
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He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
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For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.
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In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact;…
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Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live.…
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All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which…
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Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right…
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No one loves the man whom he fears.
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the…
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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful…
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
— Marcus Aurelius
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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
— Francis Bacon
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
— Francis Bacon
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I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I…
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
— Abu Bakr
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