If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are.

If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely traced out on the ground. All we need to do is to throw something odd and unaccountable in his way.

Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits.

Of all those in the army close to the commander, none is more intimate than the secret agent.

From a position of this sort, if the enemy is unprepared, you may sally forth and defeat him. But if the enemy is prepared for your coming, and you fail to defeat him, then, return being impossible, disaster will ensue.