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.

When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal.

Concentrate your energy and hoard your strength.

The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success.

Until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared

Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy.

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.