variation

is, in war, like the five notes in the musical scale, seemingly small, but in fact inexhaustible.

There are only five notes in the musical scale, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be heard. There are only five basic colors, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be seen. There are only five basic flavors, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be tasted. There are only two kinds of charge in battle, the unorthodox surprise attack and the orthodox direct attack, but variations of the unorthodox and the orthodox are endless. The unorthodox and the orthodox give rise to each other, like a beginningless circle-who could exhaust them' Sun Tzu

is the secret weapon of nature, which is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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variation