Ancient Wisdom Quotes

"To know your enemy, you must become your enemy." "What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease." "The skillful tactician may be likened to the shuai-jan. Now the shuai-jan is a snake that is found in the Ch'ang mountains. Strike at its head, and you will be attacked by its tail; strike at its tail, and you will be attacked by its head; strike at its mi" "Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: 1) He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight; 2) he will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces; 3) he will win whose army is animated by the same spirit th" "Life is short, the art long" "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad" "One of the strange things about old beliefs is that they are, as a rule, robust " "I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks." "Guests like fish begin to smell after three days" "The more flesh, the more worms; the more property, the more anxiety; the more wives, the more witchcraft; the more maidservants, the more unchastity; the more slaves, the more robbery"