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Sun Tzu

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who wishes to fight must first count the cost


— Sun Tzu


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Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.


— Sun Tzu


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If his forces are united, separate them.


— Sun Tzu


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Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.


— Sun Tzu


#empiricism #epistemology #military-philosophy #philosophy #war

Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.


— Sun Tzu


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He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.


— Sun Tzu


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Move not unless you see an advantage;  use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.


— Sun Tzu


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do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat


— Sun Tzu


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The wise warrior avoids the battle.


— Sun Tzu


#art

who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits


— 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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