If you fail to take advantage of your enemies' collapse, they may recover.

Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast….Of course, slowness is bad. Really skillful people never get out of time, and are always deliberate, and never appear busy.

If you are not progressing along the true way, a slight twist in the mind can become a major twist. This must be pondered well.

If the enemy stays spirited it is difficult to crush him.

In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.

No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible. Even with complete and thorough study there is always the possibility of being defeated and although one may be expert in a particular form, mastery is something a man never stops seeking to attain.

from one thing, know ten thousand things