Knowledge of the enemy’s dispositions cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation. It can only be obtained from other men.

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Amid the turmoil and tumult of battle, there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all; amid confusion and chaos, your array may be without head or tail, yet it will be proof against defeat.

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Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.

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The host forming a single united body, is it impossible either for the brave to advance alone, or for the cowardly to retreat alone. This is the art of handling large masses of men.

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When in difficult country, do not encamp. In country where high roads intersect, join hands with your allies. Do not linger in dangerously isolated positions. In hemmed-in situations, you must resort to stratagem. In desperate position, you must fight.

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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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There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.

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Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

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The energy developed by good fighting men is as the momentum of a round stone rolled down a mountain thousands of feet in height.

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It is through the information brought by the converted spy that we can cause the doomed spy to carry false tidings to the enemy.

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