Sun Tzu (He is loosely dated between the 6th and 3rd Century, BCE, but is thought to have been a contemporary of Confucius)
“The Skillful Warrior attacks
So that the enemy
Cannot defend;
He defends
So that the enemy
Cannot attack.”
- From Sun Tzu’s The Art of War (Chapter Six), translated by John Minford (Penguin Classics edition). The background pictures is licensed Creative Commons 3.0 (CC 3.0).
