Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.
SUN TZUTo know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.
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Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
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To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.
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Every battle is won before it’s ever fought.
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He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight
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There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.
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Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.
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Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
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Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster,
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Wheels of justice gind slow but grind fine.
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What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.
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Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.
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The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.
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Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.
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If there is disturbance in the camp, the general’s authority is weak.
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Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.
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