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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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If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is attack some other place that he will be obliged to relieve.

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Opportunities increase as they are taken.

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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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Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.

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Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.

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Keep their friends close and their enemies closer.

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The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they will become double agents and available for our service. It is through the information brought by the double agent that we are able to acquire and employ local and inward spies. It is owing to his information, again, that we can cause the doomed spy to carry false tidings to the enemy.

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When your opponent gives you an opening, be swift as a hare.

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Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling.

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If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame. But if his orders are clear, and the soldiers nevertheless disobey, then it is the fault of their officers.

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The skillful tactician may be likened to the shuai-jan. Now the shuai-jan is a snake that is found in the Ch'ang mountains. Strike at its head, and you will be attacked by its tail; strike at its tail, and you will be attacked by its head; strike at its middle, and you will be attacked by head and tail both.

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One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it.

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It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.

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The control of large numbers is possible, and like unto that of small numbers, if we subdivide them.

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Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress.

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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. If the enemy's troops march up angrily and remain facing ours for a long time without either joining battle or removing demands, the situation is one that requires great vigilance and circumspection. To begin by bluster, but afterward to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

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For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.

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War is a matter of vital importance to the state.

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Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something he cherishes and he will conform to your desires.

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