Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu (Recorded 6th-3rd Century BCE)

"Military dispositions
     Take form like water.
     Water shuns the high
     And hastens to the low.
     War shuns the strong
     And attacks the weak.
Water shapes its current
     From the lie of the land.
The warrior shapes his victory
     From the dynamic of the enemy.

• From Sun Tzu's The Art of War (Chapter 6), translated by John Minford (Penguin Classics, 2009).

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