When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value .

- Sun Bin

On both difficult and easy terrain, you must know the 'tenable' and 'fatal' ground. Occupy tenable ground and attack on fatal ground.

- Sun Bin

Greater powers and resources do not guarantee tactical superiority.

- Sun Bin

Deliberate tactical errors and minor losses are the means by which to bait the enemy.

- Sun Bin

For one who has really mastered the way of warfare, his enemy can do nothing to escape death.

- Sun Bin