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There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.

Sun Tzu
Military, Art Of War, Giving
Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.14, Lulu.com

When your opponent gives you an opening, be swift as a hare.

Sun Tzu
Giving, Opponents, Hares

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.

Sun Tzu
War, Following Instructions, Giving
"The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, translated by Chow-Hou Wee, (Chapter XIII), 2003.

At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to oppose you.

Sun Tzu
Running, Art Of War, Giving
Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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