Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Loot a Burning House (趁火打劫) from the Thirty-Six Stratagems (三十六計)

趁火打劫

敵之害大,就勢取利,剛決柔也。
"When a country is beset by internal conflicts, when disease and famine ravage the population, when corruption and crime are rampant, then it will be unable to deal with an outside threat. This is the time to attack."

Quoted from Chinese Classics and Translations

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