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Do not engage an enemy more powerful than you. And if it is unavoidable and you do have to engage, then make sure you engage it on your terms, not on your enemy's terms.

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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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If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue.

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Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this.

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No nation has ever benefited from a prolonged war.

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The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they will become double agents and available for our service. It is through the information brought by the double agent that we are able to acquire and employ local and inward spies. It is owing to his information, again, that we can cause the doomed spy to carry false tidings to the enemy.

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The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.

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

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In warfare, there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent will succeed and win.

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For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death.

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As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy.

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If we know that the enemy is open to attack, but are unaware that our own men are not in a condition to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.

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It is through the dispositions of an army that its condition may be discovered. Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory,; show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat.

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Factors in the art of warfare are: First, calculations; second, quantities; third, logistics; fourth, the balance of power; and fifth, the possibility of victory is based on the balance of power.

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He who knows his enemy and himself well will not be defeated easily.

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Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.

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Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.

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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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If your enemy is superior, evade him

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To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.

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