Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
The captured soldiers should be kindly treated and kept.
who wishes to fight must first count the cost
Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.
Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.
Great results, can be achieved with small forces.
the worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation
do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat
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.
Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style.
He who wars against the arts, wars not against nations, but against all mankind.
These military devices, leading to victory, must not be divulged beforehand.
All war is based in deception (cfr. Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”). Definition of deception: “The practice of deliberately making somebody believe things that are not true. An act, a trick or device entended to deceive somebody”. Thus, all war is...
The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.
The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.
The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work.
Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you're feeling massive Resistance, the good news is that it means there's tremendous love there too.
It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.
Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
