Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.

Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy$$$ and is not moved by him.

When the enemy is relaxed$$$ make them toil. When full$$$ starve them. When settled$$$ make them move.

Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.

Words are the clothing of our thoughts.

I must stop compromising my plays with this whiff of social application. They must be entirely untouched by any suspicion of usefulness.

He's never known anything like it! But then$$$ he has never known anything to write home about$$$ so this is nothing to write home about.

I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.

You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.