Sun Tzu

Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former.

Sun Tzu

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

Sun Tzu

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.

Sun Tzu

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

Sun Tzu

The captured soldiers should be kindly treated and kept.

Sun Tzu

The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy’s will to be imposed on him.

Sun Tzu

The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals. Hence his ability to pick out the right men and to utilise combined energy.

Sun Tzu

The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success.

Sun Tzu

The dance of battle is always played to the same impatient rhythm. What begins in a surge of violent motion is always reduced to the perfectly still.

Sun Tzu

The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only be derived, in the first instance, from the converted spy. Hence it is essential that the converted spy be treated with the utmost liberality.

Sun Tzu