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Be where your enemy is not.

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Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.

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The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

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When a general, unable to estimate the enemy's strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls a weak detachment against a powerful one, and neglects to place picked soldiers in the front rank, the result must be rout.

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When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

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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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What is of the greatest importance in war is extraordinary speed: One cannot afford to neglect opportunity.

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Set the troops to their tasks without imparting your designs.

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The best general is the one who never fights.

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Who can determine where one ends and the other begins?

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Invincibility depends on one's self; the enemy's vulnerability on him.

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Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of business.

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Weigh the situation, then move.

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Thus the skilful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand.

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Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something he cherishes and he will conform to your desires.

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

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The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

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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 all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; 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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To plan secretly, to move surreptitiously, to foil the enemy's intentions and balk his schemes, so that at last the day may be won without shedding a drop of blood.

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