“In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them”

“Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory;  show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat.”

“So long as victory can be attained,  stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.”

“If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented. The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the formless: if it is formless, then even the deepest spy cannot discern it nor the wise make plans against it.”

“Order or disorder depends on organisation; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on dispositions.”

“Conform to the enemy's tactics until a favorable opportunity offers; then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive.”

“When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.”