“He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.”

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand.

The art of war is of vital importance to the State.

Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards.