Unless you enter the tiger's lair, you cannot get hold of the tiger's cub's.

Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.

Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you.

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.

He who knows things, and in fighting puts his knowledge into practice, will win his battles. He who knows them not, nor practices them, will surely be defeated.

And therefore only the enlightened sovereign and the worthy general who are able to use the most intelligent people as agents are certain to achieve great things.

Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.