The Five Virtues

9th April 2008
Reliance on intelligence alone results in rebelliousness. Exercise of humaneness alone results in weakness. Fixation on trust results in folly. Dependence on strength and courage results in violence. When all has all five virtues together, each appropriate to its function, then one can be a military leader.

—Sun Tzu, The Art of War, Chapter 1: “On Assessments”