Du Mu
Du Mu
Du Muwas a leading Chinese poet of the late Tang dynasty. His courtesy name was Muzhi, and sobriquet Fanchuan. He is best known for his lyrical and romantic quatrains...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionPoet
CountryChina
Du Mu quotes about
emotional too-much emotion
Too much emotion is like none at all.
military order discipline
If you wish to feign confusion in order to lure the enemy on, you must first have perfect discipline; if you wish to display timidity in order to entrap the enemy, you must have extreme courage; if you wish to parade your weakness in order to make the enemy over-confident, you must have exceeding strength.
mean thinking government
Humaneness and justice are the means by which to govern properly. When government is carried out properly, people feel close to the leadership and think little of dying for it.
military mind enemy
If I wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, I must not fix my mind on that alone, but allow for the possibility of the enemy also doing some harm to me... If I wish to extricate myself from a dangerous position, I must consider not only the enemy's ability to injure me, but also my own ability to gain an advantage over the enemy.
military communication party
If the enemy is the invading party, we can cut his line of communications and occupy the roads by which he will have to return; if we are the invaders, we may direct our attack against the sovereign himself.
fire confusion enemy
In general, fire is used to throw enemies into confusion so that you can attack them.