If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. Votes: 20
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. Votes: 7
Be where your enemy is not. Votes: 0
Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions. Votes: 0
Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength. Votes: 0
Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home. Votes: 0
Expenditure Votes: 0
The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men. Votes: 0
Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you. Votes: 0
Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger. Votes: 0
For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards. Votes: 0
He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them. Votes: 0
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence. Votes: 0
Know the enemy and know yourself. Votes: 0
If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. Votes: 0
Quickness is the essence of the war. Votes: 0
Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him Votes: 0
You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked. Votes: 0
You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended. Votes: 0
The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach. Votes: 0
Never venture, never win! Votes: 0
Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will. Votes: 0
When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION. Votes: 0
Danger has a bracing effect. Votes: 0
Of all those in the army close to the commander, none is more intimate than the secret agent. Votes: 0
Attack the enemy's strategy. Votes: 0
If you know both yourself and your enemy, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss. Votes: 0
A battle avoided cannot be lost. Votes: 0
All war is based on deception. Votes: 0
All war is deception. Votes: 0
Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence. Votes: 0
Defeat the enemies strategy. Votes: 0
Do not press an enemy at bay. Votes: 0
Don't flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war. Votes: 0
Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this. Votes: 0
If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. Votes: 0
If your enemy is superior, evade him Votes: 0
It is ten thousand times cheaper to pay the best spies lavishly than even a tiny army poorly. Votes: 0
It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled. Votes: 0
Kill one, terrify a thousand. Votes: 0
Know thy self, know thy enemy. Votes: 0
Perfection in war lies in so sapping your opponents will that he surrenders without fighting. Votes: 0
Rapidity is the essence of war. Votes: 0
Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army's ability to move. Votes: 0
The Art of War is self-explanatory Votes: 0
The control of large numbers is possible, and like unto that of small numbers, if we subdivide them. Votes: 0
The true objective of war is peace. Votes: 0
Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy. Votes: 0
Victory is the main object in war. Votes: 0
Weigh the situation, then move. Votes: 0
What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease. Votes: 0
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move. Votes: 0
When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. Votes: 0
Where the army is, prices are high; when prices rise the wealth of the people is exhausted. Votes: 0