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475 Soldier Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Against Agents Bribe Care
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Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Compliments Enemy Mouths Sent
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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Art Art Of War Enemy Fighting
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He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.

Cannot Fight He Knows
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The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

Caution Enlightened Full General
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Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

Battles Enemy Know Self
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There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

Been Country Never Protracted
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Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.

Attack Defence Lies Possibility
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If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.
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.

Enemy He Lies Prudent
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Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Breaking Consists Enemy Excellence
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Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.

Battles Disaster Enemy Fight
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For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Attack Condition Enemy Gone
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He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.
Both Forces Handle He
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He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.

Animated Army He Ranks
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Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.

Army Better Goes Men
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Balk the enemy's power; force him to reveal himself.

Enemy Force Him Himself
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The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.

Account Art Art Of War Death
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If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him.
Him Irritate Opponent Temper
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

Bar Chief Complacent Knowledge
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Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

Action Categories Combat Elements
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

Decide Helplessness Hope Hopelessness
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In reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

Counting Dead Drain Fruitful
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In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

Action Discover Duty Endeavor
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Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.
Dependent Few Guerrilla Kind
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The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

Historian Mark Sake Search
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Except Means Never Peace
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

Attack Battle Beaten Both
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

Disgrace Find Labor Man
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.

Accomplished Always Anything Anywhere
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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

Individuals Like Nations Punished
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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Art Art Of War Enemy Enough
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Adversity Always Better Cherish
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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

Fail Make Men Obedience
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
Doodle Know Only Other
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