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

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

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  2. Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions. – Sun Tzu
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  5. Things go wrong for a purpose. Just know the purpose, and just understand how to distinctively use the purpose for a great purpose! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  6. It is not an external enemy we dread. Our foe is shut up within ourselves. An internal warfare is daily waged by us. – John Cassian
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  15. Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. – Sun Tzu
  16. To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy. – Sun Tzu
  17. Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain. – Sun Tzu
  18. To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. – Sun Tzu
  19. who wishes to fight must first count the cost – Sun Tzu
  20. One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all. – Sun Tzu
  21. Great results, can be achieved with small forces. – Sun Tzu
  22. When we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away… – Sun Tzu
  23. Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy’s fate in our hands. – Sun Tzu
  24. Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength. – Sun Tzu
  25. the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. – Sun Tzu
  26. Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home. – Sun Tzu
  27. When you start a fire, be to windward of it. Do not attack from the leeward. – Sun Tzu
  28. War is like a fire – if you do not put it out, it will burn itself out. – Sun Tzu
  29. Understand both yourself and your enemy, and you shall always emerge victorious – Sun Tzu
  30. Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day. – Sun Tzu
  31. When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is gloomy. – Sun Tzu
  32. 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
  33. You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked. – Sun Tzu
  34. We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors. – Sun Tzu
  35. Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the opposite state should be always present to your mind. – Sun Tzu
  36. When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION. – Sun Tzu
  37. Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground. – Sun Tzu
  38. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected. – Sun Tzu
  39. Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive. – Sun Tzu
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