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"O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible, and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands."
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"The leaves of hopes which have destined words in the body of the thought have settled to the ground. This is the world."

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"We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become."

"The Bible warns [parents] against extremes in dealing with our adult children. It tells us to avoid trying to control [them] once they become adults. When children become independent, a major transition takes place: They are no longer under our authority."

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"It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results."


"The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable."


"But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being, nor can the dead ever be brought back to life."


"You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked."


"The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man."


"If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is attack some other place that he will be obliged to relieve."


"You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended."
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