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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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Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.

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In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them.

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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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Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.

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It is imperative to contest all factions for complete victory, so the army is not garrisoned and the profit can be total. This is the law of strategic siege.

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When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food.

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Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price.

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Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

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No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.

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Those who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and and maintain their laws and institutions. By these means they make their governments invincible.

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Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions.

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When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress to act. And even though you have wise counsellors, none will be able to lay good plans for the future. Thus, while we have heard of blundering swiftness in war, we have not yet seen a clever operation that was prolonged.

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In war, practice dissimulation and you will succeed.

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And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.

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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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It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

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The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling the forces of victory, and of shrewdly calculating difficulties, dangers and distances, constitutes the test of a great general.

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Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

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Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night.

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