If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.
—Sun Tzu
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Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.
—Sun Tzu
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见胜不过众人之所识，非善之善者也。To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
—Sun Tzu
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What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations.
—Sun Tzu
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When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing.
—Sun Tzu
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If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him.
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If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him.
—Sun Tzu
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Indeed, Larry Fine was a much better violinist than Albert Einstein.
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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.
—Sun Tzu
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What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations.
—Sun Tzu
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He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
—Sun Tzu
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To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape.
—Sun Tzu
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If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him.
—Sun Tzu
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If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him.
—Sun Tzu
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Being unconquerable lies with yourself; being conquerable lies with your enemy.
—Sun Tzu
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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.
—Sun Tzu
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微乎微乎，至于无形；神乎神乎，至于无声；故能为敌之司命。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.
—Sun Tzu
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What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations.
—Sun Tzu
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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.
—Sun Tzu
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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.
—Sun Tzu
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Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment—that which they cannot anticipate.
—Sun Tzu
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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.
—Sun Tzu
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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.
—Sun Tzu
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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.
—Sun Tzu
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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.
—Sun Tzu