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A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.: Sun-tzu (~400 BC), The Art of War. Strategic Assessments
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.: Sun-tzu (~400 BC), The Art of War. Strategic Assessments
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The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.: Sun-tzu (~400 BC), The Art of War. Planning a Siege
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Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.: Sun-tzu (~400 BC), The Art of War. Emptiness and Fullness
Whom the gods love dies young.: Menander (342 BC - 292 BC), The Double Deceiver
Deus ex machina [A god from the machine]: Menander (342 BC - 292 BC), The Woman Possessed with a Divinity
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.: Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.: Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.: Zeno (335 BC - 264 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.: Bion (~100 BC), from Plutarch, Water and Land Animals

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