High-frequency quotes from "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu in Chinese and English

So it is said: If you know your enemy and yourself, you can fight a hundred battles without danger; if you don't know your enemy but know yourself, you will win and lose every time; if you don't know your enemy and you don't know yourself, you will win every battle. Fighting leads to death.

So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you can win a thousand battles without a single loss. If you only know yourself, but not your opponent, you may win or may lose. If you Knoweither yourself nor your enemy, you will always endanger yourself.

If you know your enemy and yourself, you will never be in danger in a hundred battles.

If you know both yourself and your enemy, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.

Therefore, to win a hundred battles is not a good thing; to surrender without fighting is not a good thing. The soldiers of men are those who are good and good.

Therefore one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the mostskillful. Seizing the enemy without fighting is the most skillful.

Soldiers are never tired of deceit.

All warfare is based on deception.

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, "The Art of War" Thirty-Six Strategies in Chinese and English

1. crossing the sea under camouflage

2. relieving the state of Zhao by besieging the state of Wei

3. killing someone with a borrowed knife

4. waiting at one's ease for the exhausted enemy

5. plundering a burning house

6. making a feint to the east and attacking in the west

7. creating something out of nothing

8. advancing secretly by an unknown path

9. watching a fire from the other side of the river

10. covering the dagger with a *** ile

11. Li Dai Tao stiff palming off substitute for the real thing

12. Picking up something in passing

13. Beating the grass to frighten the snake

14. resurrecting a dead soul by borrowing a corpse

15. luring the tiger out of his den

16. playing hard to catch letting the enemy off in order to catch him

17.giving the enemy something to induce him to lose more valuable things

18.capturing the ringleader first in order to capture all the followers

19. extracting the firewood from under the cauldron

20. muddling the water to catch the fish; fishing in troubled waters

21. Golden cicada slipping away by casting off a cloak; getting away like the

cicada sloughing its skin

22. Catching the thief by closing / blocking his escape route

23. Befriending the distant enemy while attacking a nearby enemy

24. Attacking the enemy by passing through a mon neighbor

25. Stealing the beams and pillars and replacing them with rotten timbers

26. Reviling/ abusing the locust tree while pointing to the mulberry

27.feigning madness without being insane

28.removing the ladder after the enemy has climbed up the roof

29. putting artificial flowers on trees

30. turning from the guest into the host

31. using seductive women to corrupt the enemy

32. Presenting a bold front to conceal unpreparedness

33. Sowing discord among the enemy

34. Deceiving the enemy by torturing one's own man

35. coordinating one stratagem with another?

36. decamping being the best; running away as the best choice

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