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“I must say, extreme justice is an extreme injury: for we ought not to approve of those terrible laws that make the smallest offences capital, nor of that opinion of the Stoics that makes all crimes equal;”
― Thomas More, Utopia

“It is not possible for all things to be well unless all men were good.”
― Thomas More, Utopia

“and as robbers prove sometimes gallant soldiers, so soldiers often prove brave robbers, so near an alliance there is between those two sorts of life. ”
― Thomas More, Utopia

“For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”
― Sir Thomas More, Utopia

“Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.”
― Thomas More, Utopia

“The change of the word does not alter the matter”
― Thomas More, Utopia

“what you can’t put right you must try to make as little wrong as possible. For things will never be perfect, until human beings are perfect.”
― Thomas More, Utopia

“I'd rather say something untrue than tell a lie. In short, I'd rather be honest than clever.”
― Sir Thomas More (Saint), Utopia

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity”
― Sun-Tzu, A Arte da Guerra

“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”
― Sun tzu, The Art of War

“who wishes to fight must first count the cost”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content.
But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Great results, can be achieved with small forces.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“It is the unemotional, reserved, calm, detached warrior who wins, not the hothead seeking vengeance and not the ambitious seeker of fortune.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Danger has a bracing effect.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“All warfare is based on deception.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“A leader leads by example not by force.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War