"Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small."
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"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak."
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"Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment - that which they cannot anticipate."
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"He who relies solely on warlike measures shall be exterminated; he who relies solely on peaceful measures shall perish."
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"Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting."
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"When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse."
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"Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory."
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"Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation."
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"All war is based on deception."
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"Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general is responsible. These are: (1) Flight; (2) insubordination; (3) collapse; (4) ruin; (5) disorganisation; (6) rout."
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"Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected."
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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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"One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage."
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"If a battle can not be won do not fight it."
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"To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
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"Kill one, terrify a thousand."
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"Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night."
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"When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing."
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"Correct your mistake as soon as you have found it."
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"Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack."
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