Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Sacrifice the Plum Tree In Place of the Peach Tree (李代桃僵) from the Thirty-Six Stratagems (三十六計)

李代桃僵

势必有损,损阴则益阳。
"There are circumstances in which you must sacrifice short-term objectives in order to gain the long-term goal. This is the scapegoat strategy whereby someone else suffers the consequences so that the rest do not. "

Quoted from Chinese Classics and Translations

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