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If, however, you are indulgent, but unable to make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce your commands; and incapable, moreover, of quelling disorder: then your soldiers must be likened to spoilt children; they are useless for any practical purpose.

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If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue.

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Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.

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Thus the skilful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand.

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The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a possible attack at several different points; and his forces being thus distributed in many directions, the numbers we shall have to face at any given point will be proportionately few.

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Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy.

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In warfare, there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent will succeed and win.

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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. If the enemy's troops march up angrily and remain facing ours for a long time without either joining battle or removing demands, the situation is one that requires great vigilance and circumspection. To begin by bluster, but afterward to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

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Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.

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Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.

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Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night.

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Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

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The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.

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The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.

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If a general shows confidence in his men but always insists on his orders being obeyed, the gain will be mutual.

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Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.

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If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

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Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack.

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He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be dampened. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength.

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The skillful tactician may be likened to the shuai-jan. Now the shuai-jan is a snake that is found in the Ch'ang mountains. Strike at its head, and you will be attacked by its tail; strike at its tail, and you will be attacked by its head; strike at its middle, and you will be attacked by head and tail both.

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