If you know both yourself and your enemy, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.
Hence the experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a loss.
The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.
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