Quotes from Sun Tzu

O ideal, e o que desejamos para todos os seres humanos, é que eles vivam em paz, em harmonia, num planeta que tenha recursos suficientes para satisfazer as necessidades básicas de todos.

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Many great warriors beat their meat, but only the strongest defeat it.

Now war is based on deception. Move when it is advantageous and create changes in the situation by dispersal and concentration of forces. When campaigning, be swift as the wind; in leisurely march, majestic as the forest; in raiding and plundering, like fire; in standing, firm as the mountains. As unfathomable as the clouds, move like a thunderbolt. When you plunder the countryside, divide your forces. When you conquer territory, divide the profits. Weigh the situation, then move.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

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When Lionel Giles began his translation of Sun Tzu's ART OF WAR, the work was virtually unknown in Europe. Its introduction to Europe began in 1782 when a French Jesuit Father living in China, Joseph Amiot, acquired a copy of it, and translated it into French. It was not a good translation because, according to Dr. Giles, [I]t contains a

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La defensa es para tiempos de escasez, el ataque para tiempos de abundancia.

No principle in the world is always right, and no thing is always wrong. What was used yesterday may be rejected today, what is rejected now may be used later on. This use or disuse has no fixed right or wrong. To avail yourself of opportunities at just the right time, responding to events without being set in your ways, is in the domain of wisdom. If your wisdom is insufficient, even if you are widely learned and highly skilled, you'll come to an impasse wherever you go.

War is like a fire—if you do not put it out, it will burn itself out.

Numerical weakness comes from having to prepare against possible attacks; numerical strength, from compelling our adversary to make these preparations against us.

Si solo eres capaz de asegurar la victoria tras enfrentarte a un adversario en un conflicto armado, esa victoria es una dura victoria. Si eres capaz de ver lo sutil y de darte cuenta de lo oculto, irrumpiendo antes del orden de la batalla, la victoria así obtenida es una victoria fácil.

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Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.

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Military action is important to the nation -- it is the ground of death and life, the path of survival and destruction, so it is imperative to examine it.

Im Frieden bereite dich auf den Krieg vor, im Krieg bereite dich auf den Frieden vor.

To a surrounded enemy you must leave a way of escape. Show him there is a road to safety, and so create in his mind the idea that there is an alternative to death. Then strike.

Keep your friends close, your enemies even closer

El que se enfrenta al oponente durante varios años para luchar por la victoria en una batalla decisiva, pero que por su codicia y su anhelo de honores, permanece ignorante de la situación del oponente; está totalmente desprovisto de humanidad. Un hombre así no tiene nada de comandante, no es un apoyo para su soberano y no es el dueño de la victoria.

Know the enemy, Know yourself, And victory Is never in doubt, Not in a hundred battles.

He who does not know theevilsof war cannot appreciate its benefits

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