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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


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Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory;  show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat.


— Sun Tzu


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You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.


— Sun Tzu


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The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a possible attack at several different points;


— Sun Tzu


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Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.


— Sun Tzu


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If you do not take opportunity   to   advance and reward   the   deserving,   your subordinates will not carry out your commands, and disaster will ensue.


— Sun Tzu


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Danger has a bracing effect.


— Sun Tzu


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When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.


— Sun Tzu


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the worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation


— Sun Tzu


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The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.


— Sun Tzu


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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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