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| | *"It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle." | | *"It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle." |
| | + | "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." |
| | *"He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.” | | *"He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.” |
| | + | *"So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak." |
| | *"Now the general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple before before the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand. Thus, do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat: how much more no calculation at all! It is by attention to this point that I can foresee who is likely to win or lose." | | *"Now the general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple before before the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand. Thus, do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat: how much more no calculation at all! It is by attention to this point that I can foresee who is likely to win or lose." |
| | *The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand. Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat: how much more no calculation at all! It is by attention to this point that I can foresee who is likely to win or lose." | | *The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand. Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat: how much more no calculation at all! It is by attention to this point that I can foresee who is likely to win or lose." |
| − | *"So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak."
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| | *"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." | | *"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." |
| | *"Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." | | *"Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." |