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To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline, simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

To refrain from intercepting an enemy whose banners are in perfect order, to refrain from attacking an army drawn up in calm and confident array:--this is the art of studying circumstances.

Thus one who is skillful at keeping the enemy on the move maintains deceitful appearances, according to which the enemy will act. He sacrifices something, that the enemy may snatch at it.

In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them; conceal your dispositions, and you will be safe from the prying of the subtlest spies, from the machinations of the wisest brains.

All men can see the tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

I was Draco in a past life.

Do you remember me?