The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Art of War by Sun Tzu: fight with desperation, he will refrain from striking," and so
on.]
7. Hence in the wise leader's plans, considerations of
advantage and of disadvantage will be blended together.
["Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous
one," says Ts`ao Kung, "the opposite state should be always
present to your mind."]
8. If our expectation of advantage be tempered in this way,
we may succeed in accomplishing the essential part of our
schemes.
[Tu Mu says: "If we wish to wrest an advantage from the
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