Quotation from: The Art of War

Written by: Sunzi (6th cent. B.C.)


9. Neither is it the acme of excellence if you fight and
conquer and the whole Empire says, "Well done!"


[True excellence being, as Tu Mu says: "To plan secretly,
to move surreptitiously, to foil the enemy's intentions and balk
his schemes, so that at last the day may be won without shedding
a drop of blood." Sun Tzu reserves his approbation for things
that
"the world's coarse thumb
And finger fail to plumb."]

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