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Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be defeated. — Sun Tzu

Treatise · Military treatise

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be defeated.

In the original Chinese

知彼知己，百戰不殆；不知彼而知己，一勝一負

Sun Tzu
The Art of War · 475 BC
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Other tags relating to this quote
Topic
Self-knowledgeEnemies
Statement type
Advice
Genre
Military treatise
Medium
Treatise
Time
475 BCAncient World
Person
Sun Tzu
Provenance
Current citation
Sun Tzu. The Art of War: The Essential Translation of the Classic Book of Life, translated by John Minford. Penguin Classics, 2009, ch. 3.
Original citation
Sun Tzu. 孫子兵法 [The Art of War]. c. 475 BC, ch. 3.

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