Quotation from: The Art of War

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


and you will be able to handle a whole army as though you had to
do with but a single man.


[Cf. supra, ss. 34.]


57. Confront your soldiers with the deed itself; never let
them know your design.


[Literally, "do not tell them words;" i.e. do not give your
reasons for any order. Lord Mansfield once told a junior
colleague to "give no reasons" for his decisions, and the maxim
is even more applicable to a general than to a judge.]

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