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Sun Tzu

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Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.


— Sun Tzu


#war #art

There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.


— Sun Tzu


#art

When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders'.


— Sun Tzu


#war #justice

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.


— Sun Tzu


#strategy #war #art

Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.


— Sun Tzu


#sun-tzu #art

If quick, I survive. If not quick, I am lost. This is "death.


— Sun Tzu


#art

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


#strategy #victory #art

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


#life #sun-tzu #the-art-of-war #art

Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.


— Sun Tzu


#strategy #war #art

If your opponent is of choleric temper,  seek to irritate him.  Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.


— 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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