Sun Tzu quotes



      “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.” 
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      “Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer” 
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     “If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.” 
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      “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” 
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       “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win” 
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       “Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.”
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       “Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.” 
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      “All warfare is based on deception.” 
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       “To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.” 
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      “If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.” 
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       “Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?” 
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      “If your opponent is of choleric temper,  seek to irritate him.  Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.” 
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       “Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.” 
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       “Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.” 
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      “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” 
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      “Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.” 
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      “know yourself and you will win all battles” 
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      “The wise warrior avoids the battle.” 
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      “When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.” 
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       “Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.” 
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        “The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.” 
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       “In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.” 
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       “Attack is the secret of defence; defence is the planning of an attack.” 
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       “If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.” 
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       “Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.” 
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        “Do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat” 
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       “Great results, can be achieved with small forces.” 
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         “Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster” 
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        “By reinforcing every part, he weakens every part.” 
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        “The art of war is of vital importance to the State.” 
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        “Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.” 
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        “He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.” 
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       “In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them” 
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       “Like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.” 
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       “Every battle is won before it’s ever fought.” 
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        “You can ensure the safety of your defence if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.” 
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        “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” 
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      “So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.” 
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       “Disorder came from order, fear came from courage, weakness came from strength.” 
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        “When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.” 
- Sun Tzu