Cao Cao Best Quotes

For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

La invención, debe ser admitido humildemente, no consiste en crear desde el vacío, sino desde el caos [...] consiste en la capacidad de atrapar las posibilidades de un tema y en el poder de moldear y dar forma a las ideas que sugiere.

She walked indoors, and staring once more at her orchids, thought to herself: ‘Flowers have their spring-time, a time for fresh blossoms and young leaves. I am young, but frail as the willow that dreads the first breath of autumn… If all turns out for the best, I may grow stronger yet. But if not, my fate will be like that of the fallen petals at spring’s end, driven by the rain and tossed in the wind…

War, negotiation as a path to: The object of a negotiation can be either agreement or rupture. If the desired outcome of the negotiations is rupture and the manufacture of a casus belli, it is best to phrase one's demands in terms of principles with wide appeal, the application of which would be ruinous for one's opponent in the matter at issue. One should insist on discussing these principles rather than practical solutions to the problems at hand in order to lay a basis for charging one's opponent with such unreasonable disregard for principle as to have made dealing with him impossible. On the other hand, if the object is to reach agreement, it is best to phrase one's demands in terms of the practical results they will produce and to stress the benefits or lack of concrete injury their acceptance will bring to the other side. War, objectives of: "He who wishes to fight must first reckon the cost." — Cao Cao (曹操曰：欲战，必先算其费，务因粮于敌也。See Sun Tzu's Art of War with Eleven Strategists' Annotations《十一家注孙子》) War objectives of: "It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." — Douglas MacArthur, 1952 War, objectives of: "Stay your hand or strike to kill; half measures leave walking enemies." Proverb