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- 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
- 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
- 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
- Riches cover a multitude of woes.
- Menander (342 BC - 292 BC), Lady of Andros
- 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
- I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
- Menander (342 BC - 292 BC), Unidentified fragment
- It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
- Menander (342 BC - 292 BC), Unidentified fragment
- The man who runs may fight again.
- Menander (342 BC - 292 BC), Monostikoi (Single Lines)
- 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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