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An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

The best policy is to declare victory and leave.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn’t throw it past me, none of them.