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.
SUN TZUIt is easy to love your friend, but sometimes the hardest lesson to learn is to love your enemy.
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If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
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When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
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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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Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.
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Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.
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Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
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You have to believe in yourself.
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Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.
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Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.
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Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.
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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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It is easy to love your friend, but sometimes the hardest lesson to learn is to love your enemy.
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Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull. Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain.
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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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One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.
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