I've read Sun Tzu's Art of War dozens of times and it's only fairly recently that I feel it's become ingrained in my mind. Here is my version of Sun Tzu's basic principles, adapted for this site. Keep in mind that there is some humor in here, but the advice is all real.
Sun Tzu's Art of War (on Women)
Make friends. Go to where the fish bite hard. Befriend their friends, go to where they cannot help but be.
Have icy composure. Know everything about them but be unknowable to them.
Play your strengths, hide your weaknesses.
Be sometimes subtle, sometimes blunt, always unpredictable. Lie shamelessly one moment, the next moment be completely, selectively, honest. One moment pretend to want them, the next pretend to not want them. This is what the ancient warriors called "mind-****ing".
Create vulnerability in them, stay flexible and ready, strike hard at the exact right moment.
Play from uphill--always care about the outcome less than them. Indifference is your main resource. Let me repeat. Indifference is your Main Resource.
Make moves that are quick, simple, and efficient.
Feed off your conquests for food, money, and most importanly, for access to more women.
Love them all, you don't have to **** them all, don't piss them off needlessly.
Be persistent but flexible. Persistence without flexibility is asinine, persistence with flexibility is gold.
Strike early, play to win quickly.
Once you see victory is assured, draw it out--this is foreplay.
When you win, win completely.
Listen to those who are successful, ignore the others.
Strike like rocks on eggshells, always strike a weaker power with your strong, content, indifferent power.
Use Contrast and Teasing to enhance sensation. A cool drink tastes better on a hot day. A cool drink tastes better after she hasn't had one for a while. This is called being unpredictable to increase intensity and this is called making them wait to create anticipation, too.
Never do the expected thing.
Make them come to you. Bait them in, lure them. Get them to chase you by taking something they want, by putting them in danger of losing something, by showing excellence, by giving them competition. Getting them to chase you by taking something they want is called feeding off them for baits--this is the peak of efficiency.
Break the shell, make the insides melt. When the insides melt the shell becomes useless.
Be always ready to strike at a moment's notice from behind a mask of icy composure and flexible, impossible to pin down, subtlety.
Divide them, get them alone, hit them alone. In a group the only two of any value to you are the strongest and the weakest. Get them on your side. Take away the attention of her friends to make her chase you.
Fight on your own turf whenever possible. Get them out of their turf, they will need you more.
Have an exit plan just in case.
Be excellent but, to the outside world, formless and unknowable. Make sure she spends more time thinking of you than you spend thinking of her. Give her reasons to think of you. Mystery is the best reason.
When it is not time to strike, do not force it. When it is the perfect time to strike, do not hesitate. At the actual moment of making a move, being formless is counterproductive--formlessness is for before, when actually striking you must be hard as a rock.
Have discipline. Have rules. Stick by them.
Use human spies. Every woman is different, has different weaknesses. Find them out. Always know more about her than she does about you.
Keep your health and don't do anything stupid. Your health is the most important thing.
Be calculatingly reckless--better go into battle early with a good plan than late with a great plan.
Take away their energy and their desire to resist and play games by exhausting them with baits and game-playing of your own. Play the game better than they do. Be better than they are. Games are an opportunity to excel. Turn their games around, be suave. When they have no energy to resist, when you put them in a place of comfort and they are grateful, your move will succeed like a spear sliding into butter cannot fail.
Be what they want and can't have, where they want to be but can't. Leave on a high note, when you're having the most fun, make them think of you and chase you.
Watch what they do, not what they say.
Don't rush in. Give them a little time to just observe you in your excellence, to let their lust for you grow. But then approach to give them an opportunity to show you their desire for you.
Don't push too hard--pushing hard for love is their job.
Act as if they were already acting the way you want them to act.
Be rested, full, and content when you make them come to you. When they are tired, empty, and hungry they will sense your power and want to attach themselves to you. The more women and options you have, the more indifference you have and more rested, full, and content you are. Never work on any less than two women at any one time.
Use the terrain. Let the place you are in with her intensify her experience of you.
In seduction it is better to receive than to give, in making love it is better to give than to receive. Mix it up anyway to be more unpredictable.
Sun Tzu's Art of War (on Women)
Make friends. Go to where the fish bite hard. Befriend their friends, go to where they cannot help but be.
Have icy composure. Know everything about them but be unknowable to them.
Play your strengths, hide your weaknesses.
Be sometimes subtle, sometimes blunt, always unpredictable. Lie shamelessly one moment, the next moment be completely, selectively, honest. One moment pretend to want them, the next pretend to not want them. This is what the ancient warriors called "mind-****ing".
Create vulnerability in them, stay flexible and ready, strike hard at the exact right moment.
Play from uphill--always care about the outcome less than them. Indifference is your main resource. Let me repeat. Indifference is your Main Resource.
Make moves that are quick, simple, and efficient.
Feed off your conquests for food, money, and most importanly, for access to more women.
Love them all, you don't have to **** them all, don't piss them off needlessly.
Be persistent but flexible. Persistence without flexibility is asinine, persistence with flexibility is gold.
Strike early, play to win quickly.
Once you see victory is assured, draw it out--this is foreplay.
When you win, win completely.
Listen to those who are successful, ignore the others.
Strike like rocks on eggshells, always strike a weaker power with your strong, content, indifferent power.
Use Contrast and Teasing to enhance sensation. A cool drink tastes better on a hot day. A cool drink tastes better after she hasn't had one for a while. This is called being unpredictable to increase intensity and this is called making them wait to create anticipation, too.
Never do the expected thing.
Make them come to you. Bait them in, lure them. Get them to chase you by taking something they want, by putting them in danger of losing something, by showing excellence, by giving them competition. Getting them to chase you by taking something they want is called feeding off them for baits--this is the peak of efficiency.
Break the shell, make the insides melt. When the insides melt the shell becomes useless.
Be always ready to strike at a moment's notice from behind a mask of icy composure and flexible, impossible to pin down, subtlety.
Divide them, get them alone, hit them alone. In a group the only two of any value to you are the strongest and the weakest. Get them on your side. Take away the attention of her friends to make her chase you.
Fight on your own turf whenever possible. Get them out of their turf, they will need you more.
Have an exit plan just in case.
Be excellent but, to the outside world, formless and unknowable. Make sure she spends more time thinking of you than you spend thinking of her. Give her reasons to think of you. Mystery is the best reason.
When it is not time to strike, do not force it. When it is the perfect time to strike, do not hesitate. At the actual moment of making a move, being formless is counterproductive--formlessness is for before, when actually striking you must be hard as a rock.
Have discipline. Have rules. Stick by them.
Use human spies. Every woman is different, has different weaknesses. Find them out. Always know more about her than she does about you.
Keep your health and don't do anything stupid. Your health is the most important thing.
Be calculatingly reckless--better go into battle early with a good plan than late with a great plan.
Take away their energy and their desire to resist and play games by exhausting them with baits and game-playing of your own. Play the game better than they do. Be better than they are. Games are an opportunity to excel. Turn their games around, be suave. When they have no energy to resist, when you put them in a place of comfort and they are grateful, your move will succeed like a spear sliding into butter cannot fail.
Be what they want and can't have, where they want to be but can't. Leave on a high note, when you're having the most fun, make them think of you and chase you.
Watch what they do, not what they say.
Don't rush in. Give them a little time to just observe you in your excellence, to let their lust for you grow. But then approach to give them an opportunity to show you their desire for you.
Don't push too hard--pushing hard for love is their job.
Act as if they were already acting the way you want them to act.
Be rested, full, and content when you make them come to you. When they are tired, empty, and hungry they will sense your power and want to attach themselves to you. The more women and options you have, the more indifference you have and more rested, full, and content you are. Never work on any less than two women at any one time.
Use the terrain. Let the place you are in with her intensify her experience of you.
In seduction it is better to receive than to give, in making love it is better to give than to receive. Mix it up anyway to be more unpredictable.