Guiguzi's famous sayings

1. In this world, the winner lives and the loser dies. In the face of the victory and the negative in worldly affairs, life and death are just inevitable cause and effect.

2. Use yang to move, and virtue will be generated by each other: use yin to be still, and shape will form. Use yang to seek yin, and virtue will be obtained. Use yin to combine yang and exert force.

3. It is always better to be invisible than to fight without any effort.

4. Instead, observe the past and examine the past.

5. A villain seeks a life, a gentleman seeks a country, and a man seeks the world.

6. Wisdom can be used for things that others cannot understand, and can be used for things that others cannot understand. Hidden plans are always better than fighting without any effort.

7. Use yang to seek yin, and use virtue; use yin to combine yang and exert force.

8. Wisdom can be used for things that others cannot understand, but it can be used for things that others cannot understand.

9. Be cold-hearted and cold-hearted.

10. Don’t be moved by a word in this encounter!

11. What is knowable can be used; what is not knowable can be used by those who plan.

12. Talking with the wise depends on learning, talking with the knowledgeable relies on debating, and debating Talking with the noble depends on power, talking with the rich depends on generosity, talking with the poor depends on profit; talking with the warrior depends on humility, talking with the brave depends on courage, talking with the fool depends on sharpness ;

13. The appearance is not beautiful, nor is it evil, so the love is there.

14. The environment you live in is destiny, and the opportunities you encounter are luck.

15. Soldiers have no constant momentum, and water has no constant shape. Those who can win due to changes in the enemy are called gods.

16. Determine whether something exists or not and whether it is true or not, and follow one’s desires to see one’s will.

17. What is right is not as good as it is strange, and it is the flow of strange things that does not stop.

18. Discussing appearance based on appearance is like seeing a leopard in a tube. Not separated from the form, not bound by the law, seen as invisible, heard as silent, the appearance is good.

19. Attack the unprepared and take them by surprise.

20. Knowing begins with knowing oneself, and then knowing others.

21. Any knowledge is divided into techniques. As far as military science is concerned, the art of using troops lies in victory, the way of using troops lies in reconciling disputes, in subduing the enemy without fighting, in turning conflicts into jade and silk, and in using four taels to move a thousand catties.

22. The mouth is the door of the heart, from which wisdom and wisdom come.

23. If there is a form but no mind, it will destroy itself. If there is no form but there will be a mind, it will arise on its own. There is a mind but no form, and each other arises in accordance with the mind; there is a form and no mind, and each other disappears in accordance with the mind.

24. You can’t force others on what they don’t want, and you can’t teach others what they don’t know.