The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price.
All war is based on deception.
The dance of battle is always played to the same impatient rhythm. What begins in a surge of violent motion is always reduced to the perfectly still.
If a battle can not be won do not fight it.
You can prevent your opponent from defeating you through defense, but you cannot defeat him without taking the offensive.
Of old the expert in battle would first make himself invincible and then wait for his enemy to expose his vulnerability.
Against those skilled in attack, an enemy does not know where to defend; against the experts in defense, the enemy does not know where to attack.
In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.
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