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We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors. We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country.

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If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst.

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To perceive victory when it is known to all is not really skilful. Everyone calls victory in battle good, but it is not really good.

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Like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.

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When orders are consistently trustworthy and observed, the relationship of a commander with his troops is satisfactory.

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Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former.

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Be the first to seize intersecting ground, that is ground which lies the intersections of borders or intersections of main thoroughfares of commerce and travel. Your occupation of it gives you access to all who border it and all who would covet it. On intersecting ground, if you establish alliances you are safe, if you lose alliances you are in peril.

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It is according to the shapes that I lay the plans for victory, but the multitude does not comprehend this. Although everyone can see the outward aspects, none understands the way in which I have created victory.

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It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

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Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general is responsible. These are: (1) Flight; (2) insubordination; (3) collapse; (4) ruin; (5) disorganisation; (6) rout.

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Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.

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Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.

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If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

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If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is attack some other place that he will be obliged to relieve.

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Rapidity is the essence of war.

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To maintain an army at a distance causes the people to be impoverished.

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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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He who wishes to fight must first count the cost

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Being unconquerable lies with yourself; being conquerable lies with your enemy.

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He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.

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