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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat. - Author object (323)

You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened. - Author object (323)

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. - Author object (452)

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle - Author object (452)

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. - Author object (452)

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win - Author object (452)

Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. - Author object (452)

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer - Author object (452)

All warfare is based on deception. - Author object (452)

Opportunities multiply as they are seized. - Author object (452)

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. - Author object (452)

A leader leads by example, not by force - Author object (452)

When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise. - Author object (452)

Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: (1) He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. (2) He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. (3) He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks. (4) He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. (5) He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign. - Author object (452)

There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. - Author object (452)

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer them, or turn them into literature. - Author object (24)

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little. - Author object (24)

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now. - Author object (24)

Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think. - Author object (78)

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work - Author object (78)