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Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.

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In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power.

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Set the troops to their tasks without imparting your designs.

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All battles are won before they start.

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I will be able to forecast which side will be victorious and which defeated.

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There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; a delicacy of honour, which is sensitive to shame; over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.

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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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To perceive victory when it is known to all is not really skilful... It does not take much strength to lift a hair, it does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and moon, it does not take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap.

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Keep their friends close and their enemies closer.

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As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy.

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When I have won a victory I do not repeat my tactics but respond to circumstances in an infinite variety of ways.

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When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become, as it were, like rolling logs or stones... The energy developed by good fighting men is as the momentum of a round stone rolled down a mountain thousands of feet in height.

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To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.

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The sovereign must have full knowledge of the activities of the five sorts of agents. This knowledge must come from the double agents, and therefore it is mandatory that they be treated with the utmost liberality.

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Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.

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Bestow rewards without regard to rule, issue orders without regard to previous arrangements; and you will be able to handle a whole army as though you had to do with but a single man.

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Those who would wage war, should first eliminate all domestic enemies before proceeding to attack the external foe.

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Quickness is the essence of the war.

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He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.

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He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

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