quotes by Sun Tzu

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself,
you will succumb in every battle"
— Sun Tzu (The Art of War, Special Edition)

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win"
— Sun Tzu (The Art of War)

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
— Sun Tzu

""When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise."
— Sun Tzu

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

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— Sun Tzu

"No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his
own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.
If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay
where you are.
Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded
by content.
But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again
into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life."
— Sun Tzu

"Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across."
— Sun Tzu

"Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: (1)
He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. (2) He
will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.
(3) He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout
all its ranks. (4) He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take
the enemy unprepared. (5) He will win who has military capacity and
is not interfered with by the sovereign."
— Sun Tzu

"Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you
move, fall like a thunderbolt."
— Sun Tzu

"Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
— Sun Tzu

"It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war
that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on."
— Sun Tzu

"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

"Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,
to the releasing of a trigger."
— Sun Tzu

"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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— Sun Tzu

"If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected."
— Sun Tzu

"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

"It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one,
to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous,
to divide our army into two."
— Sun Tzu

"The control of a large force is the same principle
as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up
their numbers."
— Sun Tzu

""Si utilizas al enemigo para derrotar al enemigo, serás poderoso en cualquier lugar a donde vayas" "
— Sun Tzu

"In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack--the
direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to
an endless series of maneuvers."
— Sun Tzu