If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
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.
Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.
If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
You can prevent your opponent from defeating you through defense, but you cannot defeat him without taking the offensive.
Know the enemy and know yourself.
If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
Invincibility is in oneself, and vulnerability is in the opponent. Invincibility is a matter of defense, vulnerability is a matter of attack. Therefore skillful warriors are able to be invincible, but they cannot cause opponents to be vulnerable. That is why it is said that victory is discerned and not manufactured.
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle
So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make an opponent prone to defeat.
Therefore the victories of good warriors are not noted for cleverness or bravery. Therefore their victories in battle are not flukes. Their victories are not flukes because they position themselves where they will surely win, prevailing over those wh.
A warrior who is prepared to fight must also be prepared to die.
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