If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached to you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be useless.

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We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.

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If you order your men to roll up their buffcoats, and make forced marches without halting day or night, covering double the usual distance at a stretch, doing a hundred LI in order to wrest an advantage, the leaders of all your three divisions will fall into the hands of the enemy.

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He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them.

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By persistently hanging on the enemy’s flank, we shall succeed in the long run in killing the commander-in-chief.

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The onrush of a conquering force is like the bursting of pent-up waters into a chasm a thousand fathoms deep.

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Sometimes we all need to be reminded of obvious shit.

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There is a proper season for making attacks with fire, and special days for starting a conflagration.

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That the impact of your army may be like a grindstone dashed against an egg - this is effected by the science of weak points and strong.

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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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