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.
SUN TZUSuccess in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy’s purpose.
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Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him.
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When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
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Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate.
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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 secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
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When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.
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If quick, I survive. If not quick, I am lost. This is “death.
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Do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat.
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When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.
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Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.
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Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.
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He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
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There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of them yield more flavours than can ever be tasted.
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The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
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But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.
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