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The height of strategy, is to attack your opponent's strategy.

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Winning Strategists are certain of triumph before seeking a challenge. Losing Strategists are certain to challenge before seeking a triumph.

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The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

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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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The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds.

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There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. Thus, to take a long and circuitous route after enticing the enemy out of the way, and though starting after him to contrive to reach the goal before him, shows knowledge of the artifice of deviation.

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All war is based on deception.

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Attack the enemy's strategy.

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Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity.

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There are routes not to be followed, armies not to be attacked, citadels not to be besieged, territory not to be fought over.

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One whose troops repeatedly congregate in small groups here and there, whispering together, has lost the masses. One who frequently grants rewards is in deep distress. One who frequently imposes punishments is in great difficulty. One who is at first excessively brutal and then fears the masses is the pinnacle of stupidity.

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What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.

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At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to oppose you.

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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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Unless you enter the tiger's lair, you cannot get hold of the tiger's cub's.

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Hence the experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a loss.

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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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The general that hearkens to my counsel and acts upon it, will conquer: let such a one be retained in command! The general that hearkens not to my counsel nor acts upon it, will suffer defeat: - let such a one be dismissed!

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When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.

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All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

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