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Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.

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The dance of battle is always played to the same impatient rhythm. What begins in a surge of violent motion is always reduced to the perfectly still.

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The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success.

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The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.

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It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous, to divide our army into two.

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So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.

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From a position of this sort, if the enemy is unprepared, you may sally forth and defeat him. But if the enemy is prepared for your coming, and you fail to defeat him, then, return being impossible, disaster will ensue.

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Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

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Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

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The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

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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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To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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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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There is an intelligent way to eat a live frog - I just don't know what it is.

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To capture an enemies army is better than to destroy it.

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It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.

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Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying to take you unaware.

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A warrior who is prepared to fight must also be prepared to die.

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In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

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