Ocupation: Strategist
Life: 544 BC - 496 BC
Birthday: 544 BC
Death: 496 BC
If, however, you are indulgent, but unable to make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce your commands; and incapable, moreover, of quelling disorder: then your soldiers must be likened to spoilt children; they are useless for any practical purpose.
- Sun Tzu
source: Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.24, Lulu.com
topic: Art, Children, War, Kind Hearted, Spoilt