Sun Tzu Quotes

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.

Conform to the enemy's tactics until a favorable opportunity offers; then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive.

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

Cualquiera que tenga forma puede ser definido, y cualquiera que pueda ser definido puede ser vencido.

The answer was again in the affirmative, so arrangements were made to bring 180 ladies out of the Palace. Sun Tzu divided them into two companies, and placed one of the King's favourite concubines at the head of each. He then bade them all take spears in their hands, and addressed them thus: “I presume you know the difference between front and back, right hand and left hand?

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

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.

Do not press a desperate enemy.

You must be swift as the wind, dense as the forest, rapacious as fire, steadfast like a mountain, mysterious as night and mighty as thunder.

故明君賢將，所以動而勝人，成功出於衆者，先知也。

What enables the enlightened rulers and good generals to conquer the enemy at every move and achieve extraordinary success is foreknowledge.

It is unlucky to be stubborn in the face of insurmountable odds

進不邀功，退不避罪，唯人是保，而利合於主，國之寶也。

licited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any

One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.