To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
SUN TZUKnow your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster,
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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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Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.
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It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
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Wheels of justice gind slow but grind fine.
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One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.
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Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
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When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is gloomy.
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To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.
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The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a possible attack at several different points.
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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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Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.
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Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.
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Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.
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Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
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The wise warrior avoids the battle.
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