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虛實 - Weak Points and Strong

English translation: Lionel Giles [?] Library Resources
6 虛實:
故策之而知得失之計,作之而知動靜之理,形之而知死生之地,角之而知有餘不足之處。故形兵之極,至于無形;無形,則深間不能窺,智者不能謀。因形而措勝于眾,眾不能知,人皆知我所以勝之形,而莫知吾所以制勝之形;故其戰勝不復,而應形於無窮。
Weak Points and Strong:...:
Scheme so as to discover his plans and the likelihood of their success. Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots. Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient. 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. How victory may be produced for them out of the enemy's own tactics - that is what the multitude cannot comprehend. All men can see the tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances.

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