If the enemy leaves a door open, you must rush in.

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions.

What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.

If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue.

Until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared