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When your opponent gives you an opening, be swift as a hare.

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If a battle can not be won do not fight it.

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If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.

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When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse.

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Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision; concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes a fund of latent energy; masking strength with weakness is to be effected by tactical dispositions.

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In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory.

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With regard to narrow passes, if you can occupy them first, let them be strongly garrisoned and await the advent of the enemy.

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Rapidity is the essence of war.

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Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.

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So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.

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If we know that the enemy is open to attack, but are unaware that our own men are not in a condition to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.

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He who wishes to fight must first count the cost

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The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.

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In all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the disastrous effects of a long war can realize the supreme importance of rapidity in bringing it to a close.

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Probe him and learn where his strength is abundant and where deficient.

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The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without having to fight them.

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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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The line between disorder and order lies in logistics.

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Don't flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war.

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When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing.

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