There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.
Interpretation
Underestimating your opponent can lead to significant setbacks or failures.
This quote emphasizes the importance of respect and caution towards one's opponents or competitors. By suggesting that underestimation can lead to greater dangers, it highlights the need for awareness and preparedness when facing challenges, as complacency can result in unexpected consequences.
In practice
In a team meeting when discussing strategies against competitors.
If you understand others you are smart._x000D_ If you understand yourself you are illuminated._x000D_ If you overcome others you are powerful._x000D_ If you overcome yourself you have strength._x000D_ If you know how to be satisfied you are rich._x000D_ If you can act with vigor, you have a will._x000D_ If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting._x000D_ If you die without loss, you are eternal.
When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.
If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don't say anything bad. Don't be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.
The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.
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