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[FN#14] I read here janma, "birth;" not jara,"age"

[In the tactics of Turenne, deception of the enemy, especially as to the numerical strength of his troops, took a very prominent position. [2] ]

And the selection will be no easy matter, I said; but we must be brave and do our best.

He will conquer who has learnt the artifice of deviation.

And if merchandise is to be carried over the sea, skilful sailors will also be needed, and in considerable numbers?

Tao Te Ching — Chapter 71: Chapter 76

With all the sharpness of the Way of Heaven, it injures not; with all the doing in the way of the sage he does not strive.

That is true; yet neither will it be a very small State which contains all these.

The people do not fear death; to what purpose is it to (try to) frighten them with death? If the people were always in awe of death, and I could always seize those who do wrong, and put them to death, who would dare to do wrong?

Would not he who is fitted to be a guardian, besides the spirited nature, need to have the qualities of a philosopher?

But, said Glaucon, interposing, you have not given them a relish to their meal.

When you plunder a countryside, let the spoil be divided amongst your men;

Tao Te Ching — Chapter 74: Chapter 79

Yes, he said, the tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

[FN#34] Rakshasas and Yakshas are unembodied but capricious beings of great power, gifts, and beauty, same times also of benignity.

And therefore what they produce at home must be not only enough for themselves, but such both in quantity and quality as to accommodate those from whom their wants are supplied.

the spoken word does not carry far enough: hence the institution of gongs and drums. Nor can ordinary objects be seen clearly enough: hence the institution of banners and flags.

But are not these spirited natures apt to be savage with one another, and with everybody else?

The host thus forming a single united body, is it impossible either for the brave to advance alone, or for the cowardly to retreat alone.

Then without determining as yet whether war does good or harm, thus much we may affirm, that now we have discovered war to be derived from causes which are also the causes of almost all the evils in States, private as well as public.