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Sun Tzu

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There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.


— Sun Tzu


#art

When an invading force crosses a river in its onward march, do not advance to meet it in mid-stream.  It will be best to let half the army get across, and then deliver your attack.


— Sun Tzu


#strategy #war #art

If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. [One may know the condition of a whole army from the behavior of a single man.]


— Sun Tzu


#strategy #war #art

To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.


— Sun Tzu


#strategy #war #art

El arte de la guerra se basa en el engaño. Por lo tanto, cuando es capaz de atacar, ha de aparentar incapacidad; cuando las trampas se mueven, aparentar inactividad.


— Sun Tzu


#art

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible, and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.


— Sun Tzu


#military-philosophy #art

if you fight with all your might,  there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner


— Sun Tzu


#strategy #war #art

Находясь в порядке, ждут беспорядка; находясь в спокойствии, ждут волнений; это и есть управление сердцем.


— Sun Tzu


#art

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.


— Sun Tzu


#enemy #know #self #thousand #thy

If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.


— Sun Tzu


#enemy #far #him #make #near






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Did you know about Sun Tzu?

The finding of Sun Bin's work is considered to be extremely important both because of Sun Bin's relationship to Sun Tzu and because of the work's addition to the body of military thought in late Chinese antiquity. Traditionalists attribute the authorship of The Art of War to the historical figure Sun Wu who is chronicled in the Records of the Grand Historian and the Spring and Autumn Annals. In 1972 scholars uncovered a collection of ancient texts written on unusually well-preserved bamboo slips.

His work continues to influence both Asian and Western culture and politics. Traditional accounts state that his descendant Sun Bin also wrote a treatise on military tactics titled Sun Bin's Art of War. Both Sun Wu and Sun Bin were referred to as Sun Tzu in classical Chinese writings and some historians believed that Sun Wu was in fact Sun Bin until Sun Bin's own treatise was discovered in 1972.

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