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Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.

Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.
– Sun Tzu

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  1. Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders. – Criss Jami
  2. Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength. – Sun Tzu
  3. To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy. – Sun Tzu
  4. the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. – Sun Tzu
  5. Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. No more. No less.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries – Howard Tayler
  6. The only thing more dangerous than your enemy knowing how powerful you are, is your enemy not knowing how powerful you are – Joshua Teya
  7. The only thing more dangerous then your enemy knowing how powerful you are, is your enemy not knowing how powerful you are. – Joshua Teya
  8. Understand both yourself and your enemy, and you shall always emerge victorious – Sun Tzu
  9. Knowing others is Wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment – Lao Tzu
  10. Stand up.Stand out.Stand firm.Stand strong. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  11. The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. – Sun Tzu
  12. 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
  13. The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent. – Sun Tzu
  14. He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. – Sun Tzu
  15. Be where your enemy is not. – Sun Tzu
  16. When we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away… – Sun Tzu
  17. Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy’s fate in our hands. – Sun Tzu
  18. Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home. – Sun Tzu
  19. mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy – Sun Tzu
  20. Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy’s purpose. – Sun Tzu
  21. To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy’s numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence. – Sun Tzu
  22. The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. – Sun Tzu
  23. The most dangerous enemy is that enemy when your ally becomes enemy – Kamaran Ihsan Salih
  24. Persecution happens when we stand in the face of our enemy. Friendship with the world is to conspire with that same enemy. – Brian Reynolds
  25. …he didn’t know if he was Chuang Tzu who dreamed he was a ????erfly, or a ????erfly dreaming he was Chuang Tzu. – Inio Asano
  26. I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing that they weren’t the same thing. – Maggie Stiefvater
  27. Knowing why you are is your purpose.Knowing who you are is your style.Knowing what you are is your character – Debasish Mridha
  28. Stand strong. Stand firm. Stand tall like tower. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  29. Don’t be so defensive and afraid to be proven wrong that you miss the opportunity to learn from your mistakes. – Karen E Quinones Miller
  30. Don’t be so defensive and afraid to be proven wrong that you miss the opportunity to learn from your mistakes. – Karen E Quinones Miller
  31. At best, people are open to scrutinizing themselves and considering their blind spots; at worst, they become defensive and angry. – Sheryl Sandberg
  32. Have we become so defensive that we cannot even tolerate a kind act? – Kyra Gregory
  33. Chatty, defensive, observant. My new favorite witness. – Rob Thomas
  34. Getting defensive doesn’t hide the fact that you know you could have done better. Stop putting your energy into your excuses. – Tony Curl
  35. Amazing how a confluence of praise and lust can just make your defensive barriers collapse like Jell-O on a hot stove – Dan Skinner
  36. Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. – Anita Brookner
  37. Simply minding one’s own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than. – Criss Jami
  38. When you’re given the gift of truth, you spend a lot of time trying to tone it down because it is already offensive enough. – Shannon L Alder
  39. Questions are only offensive to those who have something to hide – Gary Hopkins
  40. It is unlikely that we will hit a home run anytime soon but if we are unable to get rid of offensive sports team nicknames, we will strike out. – Adam Dodek

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