When your opponent gives you an opening, be swift as a hare.

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

Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.

Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.

One whose troops repeatedly congregate in small groups here and there, whispering together, has lost the masses. One who frequently grants rewards is in deep distress. One who frequently imposes punishments is in great difficulty. One who is at first excessively brutal and then fears the masses is the pinnacle of stupidity.

I will be able to forecast which side will be victorious and which defeated.

As water has no constant form, there are in war no constant conditions.