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- One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.
- To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad is better than…
- For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme…
- Bestow rewards without respect to customary practice; publish orders without respect to precedent. Thus you may employ the entire army as you would one man.
- Act after having made assessments. The one who first knows the measure of far and near wins - this is the rule of armed struggle.
- What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.
- Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports.
- When a general, unable to estimate the enemy's strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls a weak detachment against a…
- Hence the saying: One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.
- 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…
- On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums... banners and flags. Gongs and…
- By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and taking circuitous routes,…
- Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former.
- When one treats people with benevolence, justice and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be…
- One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.
- One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it.
- It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to meet him; not…
- One who has few must prepare against the enemy; one who has many makes the enemy prepare against him.
- 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…
- Invincibility depends on one's self; the enemy's vulnerability on him.
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