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Sun Tzu

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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.


— Sun Tzu


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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.


— Sun Tzu


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


— Sun Tzu


#also #defeating #enemy #must #perceive

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.


— Sun Tzu


#even #fight #fighting #forbid #must

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you now Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.


— Sun Tzu


#doubt #earth #enemy #heaven #hence

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.


— Sun Tzu


#common #excellence #herd #ken #only

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.


— Sun Tzu


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There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.


— Sun Tzu


#benefited #country #never #protracted #war

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.


— Sun Tzu


#disinclined #distaste #lives #long #longevity

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.


— Sun Tzu


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Did you know about Sun Tzu?

The finding of Sun Bin's work is considered to be extremely important both because of Sun Bin's relationship to Sun Tzu and because of the work's addition to the body of military thought in late Chinese antiquity. Traditionalists attribute the authorship of The Art of War to the historical figure Sun Wu who is chronicled in the Records of the Grand Historian and the Spring and Autumn Annals. In 1972 scholars uncovered a collection of ancient texts written on unusually well-preserved bamboo slips.

His work continues to influence both Asian and Western culture and politics. Traditional accounts state that his descendant Sun Bin also wrote a treatise on military tactics titled Sun Bin's Art of War. Both Sun Wu and Sun Bin were referred to as Sun Tzu in classical Chinese writings and some historians believed that Sun Wu was in fact Sun Bin until Sun Bin's own treatise was discovered in 1972.

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