If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are. ― Sun Tzu

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Thus, to take a long and circuitous route, after enticing the enemy out of the way, and though starting after him, to contrive to reach the goal before him, shows knowledge of the artifice of deviation. ― Sun Tzu

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If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles ― Sun Tzu

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Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far ― Sun Tzu

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Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy’s plans; the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy’s forces; the next in order is to attack the enemy’s army in the field; and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities. ― Sun Tzu

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Sometimes when things seem to be going wrong, they are going right for reasons you are yet to understand.

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he not honestly believed the contrary. And it is precisely on such a point that the judgment of an educated Chinaman will carry most weight. Other internal evidence is not far to seek. Thus in XIII. ss. 1, there is an unmistakable allusion to the ancient system. ― Sun Tzu

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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

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was profound insight of a spiritual nature that could help me live my everyday life unconstrained by conflict, either with others or within myself. These. ― Sun Tzu

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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

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