31. "Order or disorder depends on organisation; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on dispositions."
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32. "One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful."
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33. "If you are near the enemy, make him believe you are far from him. If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are now"
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34. "Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons"
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35. "If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented. The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the formless: if it is formless, then even the deepest spy cannot discern it nor the wise make plans against it."
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36. "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."
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37. "In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them."
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38. "Supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy."
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39. "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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40. "In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them"
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