Quotes by Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu is the traditional author of The Art of War, a treatise on strategy. Scholars debate who he was and when the text took its present form. The wording here is Lionel Giles’s 1910 translation, cited by chapter and paragraph.
All warfare is based on deception.
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.