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In the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

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According to my assessment, even if you have many more troops than others, how can that help you to victory?

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These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger; nonobservance of discipline; failure to use picked men.

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The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.

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Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.

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The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

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Generally, management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization. And to control many is the same as to control few. This is a matter of formations and signals.

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There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.

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Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying to take you unaware.

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If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

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Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.

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Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.

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Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.

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The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

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By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and taking circuitous routes, he prevents the enemy from anticipating his purpose. At the critical moment, the leader of an army acts like one who has climbed up a height and then kicks away the ladder behind him.

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Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage.

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Without local guides, your enemy employs the land as a weapon against you.

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If the enemy opens the door, you must race in.

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The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand. Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat: how much more no calculation at all! It is by attention to this point that I can foresee who is likely to win or lose.

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Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress.

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