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Chinese general and strategist traditionally credited with The Art of War (around the 5th century BC). 6 quotes.
Checked against Project Gutenberg eBook #132.
All warfare is based on deception.
There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.
In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.
Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.