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By Sun Tzu
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
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- The Art of War (Sun Tzu, translated by Lionel Giles), 1910 · Chapter VII (Maneuvering), paragraph 19
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- Lionel Giles translation (Project Gutenberg text, eBook #132)
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From The Art of War, Chapter VII (Maneuvering),, paragraph 19, in Lionel Giles's English translation (1910). Sun Tzu (Sunzi) wrote in Chinese, so the English words are Giles's. The author and date are uncertain; tradition places him around the 5th century BCE. Giles's note after it, which quotes T'ai Kung, is not part of the quote.