Unless you really understand others, you can hardly attain your own self-understanding.

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.

To cut and slash are two different things. Cutting, whatever form of cutting it is, is decisive, with a resolute spirit. Slashing is nothing more than touching the enemy.

This is truth: When you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry. It is false not to do so, and to die with a weapon as yet undrawn.

A warrior has no confusion in his mind...This is true emptiness.

Fixed formation is bad. Study this well.

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.