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53 Sun Tzu Quotes & Sayings
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53 Sun Tzu Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 545 BC. Died: 470 BC |
Philosopher
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Soldier
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Writer
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The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
Sun Tzu
War
Receive
Position
Enemy
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If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
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Battles
Enemy
Fear
Hundred
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Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
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Beloved
Children
Death
Deepest
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To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
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Battles
Breaking
Conquer
Consists
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Attack
Enemy
Importance
Strategy
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All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
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Conquer
Evolved
Men
None
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The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
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Advances
Country
Disgrace
Fame
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Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
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Director
Even
Extremely
Fate
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Benevolent
Commander
Fame
Good
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He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
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Fight
He
Knows
Who
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Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.
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Complete
Doubt
Earth
Enemy
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Believe
Enemy
Far
Him
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Quickness is the essence of the war.
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Essence
Quickness
War
Smart
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There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
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Instance
Nation
Prolonged
Warfare
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The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
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Beyond
Defeat
Defeating
Enemy
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Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
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After
Afterwards
Battle
Been
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The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
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Battle
Before
Beforehand
Calculations
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Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.
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Achievements
Conquer
Enemy
Enlightened
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Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
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Arrogance
Encourage
His
Inferiority
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For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
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Battles
Enemy
Fighting
Hundred
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Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.
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Agent
Agents
Army
Close
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It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.
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Against
Agents
Bribe
Care
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Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
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Army
Essential
Every
Make
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If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
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Because
Distaste
Lives
Long
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The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
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Decision
Destroy
Enables
Falcon
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To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
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Common
Excellence
Herd
Ken
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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
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Compliments
Enemy
Mouths
Sent
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Art
Art Of War
Enemy
Fighting
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He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.
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Cannot
Fight
He
Knows
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The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.
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Caution
Enlightened
Full
General
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Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
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Battles
Enemy
Know
Self
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There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.
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Been
Country
Never
Protracted
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Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.
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Attack
Defence
Lies
Possibility
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Both
Certain
Enemy
Ignorant
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He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
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Enemy
He
Lies
Prudent
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Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
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Breaking
Consists
Enemy
Excellence
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Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.
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Battles
Disaster
Enemy
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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Advantage
Also
Defeating
Enemy
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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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Defeated
First
Go
Seek
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Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
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Away
Calamity
Death
Doubts
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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; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
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Art
Art Of War
Best
Country
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The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
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Against
Defeat
Defeating
Enemy
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Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
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Attack
Defend
Defense
Does
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It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
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Achieve
Army
Enlightened
General
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Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.
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Able
Annihilation
Confront
Danger
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If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.
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Bidding
Even
Fight
Fighting
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If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.
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Attack
Condition
Enemy
Gone
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Both
Forces
Handle
He
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He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.
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Animated
Army
He
Ranks
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Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.
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Army
Better
Goes
Men
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