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The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

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When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress to act. And even though you have wise counsellors, none will be able to lay good plans for the future. Thus, while we have heard of blundering swiftness in war, we have not yet seen a clever operation that was prolonged.

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

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Against those skilled in attack, an enemy does not know where to defend; against the experts in defense, the enemy does not know where 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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Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.

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

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If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own, then I can concentrate and he must divide.

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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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Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage.

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In war, practice dissimulation and you will succeed.

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When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal.

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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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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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If a general shows confidence in his men but always insists on his orders being obeyed, the gain will be mutual.

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Whoever is the first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy will be fresh for the fight... Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy... By holding out advantages to him, he can cause the enemy to approach of his own accord; or by inflicting damage, he can make it impossible for the enemy to draw near.

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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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The line between disorder and order lies in logistics.

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One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.

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If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely traced out on the ground. All we need to do is to throw something odd and unaccountable in his way.

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