Sun Tzu

Invincibility depends on one’s self; the enemy’s vulnerability on him.

Sun Tzu

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

Sun Tzu

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

Sun Tzu

It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.

Sun Tzu

It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy’s one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous, to divide our army into two.

Sun Tzu

It is the unemotional, reserved, calm, detached warrior who wins, not the hothead seeking vengeance and not the ambitious seeker of fortune.

Sun Tzu

Knowledge of the enemy’s dispositions can only be obtained from other men.

Sun Tzu

Like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.

Sun Tzu

Move swift as the wind and closely-formed as the wood. Attack like the fire and be still as the mountain.

Sun Tzu

One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other’s military without battle is the most skillful.

Sun Tzu