Du Mu quotes
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“If you wish to feign confusion in order to lure the enemy on, you must first have perfect discipline; if you wish to display timidity in order to entrap the enemy, you must have extreme courage; if you wish to parade your weakness in order to make the enemy over-confident, you must have exceeding strength.”
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“Humaneness and justice are the means by which to govern properly. When government is carried out properly, people feel close to the leadership and think little of dying for it.”
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“If I wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, I must not fix my mind on that alone, but allow for the possibility of the enemy also doing some harm to me... If I wish to extricate myself from a dangerous position, I must consider not only the enemy's ability to injure me, but also my own ability to gain an advantage over the enemy.”
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“If the enemy is the invading party, we can cut his line of communications and occupy the roads by which he will have to return; if we are the invaders, we may direct our attack against the sovereign himself.”
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“Roll rocks down a ten-thousand-foot mountain, and they cannot be stopped - this is because of the mountain, not the rocks. Get people to fight with the courage to win every time, and the strong and the weak unite - this is because of the momentum, not the individuals.”
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“In general, fire is used to throw enemies into confusion so that you can attack them.”
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“The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.”
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“...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.”
Source : A. C. Grayling (2004). “Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God”, p.4, Oxford University Press, USA
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“I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.”
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