A Beck

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“You've always been the strongest. But you don't need to be strong every waking moment of every day.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 [Tiān Guān Cì Fú]

“The thought of confronting a disembodied appendage over a few pints at the local watering hole without so much as a by your leave was abhorrent to me in the utmost”
― A. Rae Dunlap, The Resurrectionist

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