Beginning is easy - Continuing is hard. When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man. One kind word can warm three winter months. A man must not live under the same sky as one who has injured his lord or father. To perceive victory when it is known to all is not really skilful… It does not take much strength to lift a hair, it does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and moon, it does not take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. If you do not know the enemy and do not know yourselves you will be in danger in every battle. 
If you do not know the others but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one.
If you know your enemy and know yourself, you will not be imperilled by a hundred battles. The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men. Nothing ever exists entirely alone everything is in relation to everything else. The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. Dishonour is like a scar on a tree, which time, instead of effacing, only helps to enlarge. If you do not enter the tiger's cave, you will not catch its cub. The stake that sticks out gets hammered down. Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. A little piece of gold may be highly valued, but if it gets in one's eye, the result will be darkness. Even if one has learned all the sayings of the sages and saints, he should not insist on them obstinately. The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. A flower falls, even though we love it and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. 
Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. A general of great merit should be said to be a man who has met with at least one great defeat. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory. Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. The colour of the mountains is Buddha's body the sound of running water is his great speech. Thus, if a general slackens only a little, those beneath him will be greatly negligent. It is said that the inferior seek to emulate the superior. Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment. Total War: Shogun 2 is a strategy computer game developed by The Creative Assembly and published by Sega on 15 March 2011.
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