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Set the troops to their tasks without imparting your designs.

Sun Tzu

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Unless you enter the tiger's lair, you cannot get hold of the tiger's cub's.
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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.
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One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it.
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Should the enemy forestall you in occupying a pass, do not go after him if the pass is fully garrisoned, but only if it is weakly garrisoned.
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There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.
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What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations.
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Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve.
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Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.
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In the tumult and uproar, the battle seems chaotic, but there is no disorder, the troops appear to be milling about in circles but cannot be defeated.
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Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.
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Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.
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When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food.
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If it is to your advantage, make a forward move if not, stay where you are.
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