Sun Tzu's Ancient Life Lessons Men Learn Too Late In Life

appear weak when you are strong and strong when you are weak if you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night and when you move fall like a thunderbolt in the midst of chaos there is also opportunity victorious warriors win first and then go to war while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win to know your enemy you must become your enemy there is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare treat your men

as you would your own beloved sons and they will follow you into the deepest valley even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust move swift as the wind and closely formed as the wood attack like the fire and be still as the mountain opportunities multiply as they are seized there are not more than five musical notes yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard when the enemy is relaxed make them toil when full starve them when settled make them move who wishes to fight must

first count the cost if you wait by the river long enough the bodies of your enemies will float by know yourself and you will win all battles [Music] to win 100 victories in 100 battles is not the acme of skill to subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill [Music] build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate the whole secret lies in confusing the enemy so

that he cannot fathom our real intent what the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins but excels in winning with ease rouse him and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity force him to reveal himself so as to find out his vulnerable spots you have to believe in yourself if the mind is willing the flesh could go on and on without many things thus the expert in battle moved the enemy and is not moved by him attack is the secret of defense defense is the planning of an attack great results

can be achieved with small forces ponder and deliberate before you make a move if quick i survive if not quick i am lost this is death ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting if you ignore both your enemy and yourself you are certain to be in peril move not unless you see an advantage use not your troops unless there is something to be gained fight not unless the position is critical wheels of justice grind slow but grind fine it is easy to love your friend but sometimes

the hardest lesson to learn is to love your enemy if his forces are united separate them you can't trust a man who has nothing to lose plan for what is difficult while it is easy do what is great while it is small if he sends reinforcements everywhere he will be weak everywhere be where your enemy is not an enemy is a friend who knows too much about you disorder came from order fear came from courage weakness came from strength if your friend is friends with your enemy it means that you should not hang out with

this friend [Music] beware of sugar that is mixed with poison beware of the fly that sat on a dead snake who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits therefore just as water retains no constant shape so in warfare there are no constant conditions regard your soldiers as your children they will follow you into the deepest valleys look on them as your own beloved sons a leader leads by example not by force he will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces in making tactical dispositions the highest pitch you

can attain is to conceal them [Music] strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory tactics without strategy is noise before defeat the captured soldiers should be kindly treated and kept one need not destroy one's enemy one need only destroy his willingness to engage every animal with blood in its veins and horns on its head will fight when it is attacked never trust a friend who is silent about your flaws [Music]