When, in consequence of heavy rains up-country, a river which you wish to ford is swollen and flecked with foam, you must wait until it subsides.
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[Not on high hills, but on knolls or hillocks elevated above the surrounding country.]
When an army is overthrown and its leader slain, the cause will surely be found among these five dangerous faults. Let them be a subject of meditation.
Shall we begin education with music, and go on to gymnastic afterwards?
Tao Te Ching — Chapter 76: Chapter 81
[Because of the lack of fresh water, the poor quality of the herbage, and last but not least, because they are low, flat, and exposed to attack.]
[Li Ch’uan remarks that the ground is less likely to be treacherous where there are trees, while Tu Mu says that they will serve to protect the rear.]
[Chang Yu says: "The dryness of the climate will prevent the outbreak of illness."]
The latter defined as "places enclosed on every side by steep banks, with pools of water at the bottom."]
(5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.
[Li Ch’uan remarks that the ground is less likely to be treacherous where there are trees, while Tu Mu says that they will serve to protect the rear.]
and camp on hard ground, the army will be free from disease of every kind,
You may find a model of the lesser in the greater, I said; for they are necessarily of the same type, and there is the same spirit in both of them.
Those, I said, which are narrated by Homer and Hesiod, and the rest of the poets, who have ever been the great story-tellers of mankind.
Then he who is to be a really good and noble guardian of the State will require to unite in himself philosophy and spirit and swiftness and strength?
If forced to fight in a salt-marsh, you should have water and grass near you, and get your back to a clump of trees.
Country in which there are precipitous cliffs with torrents running between, deep natural hollows,
If forced to fight in a salt-marsh, you should have water and grass near you, and get your back to a clump of trees.
And is not the love of learning the love of wisdom, which is philosophy?
which enabled the Yellow Emperor to vanquish four several sovereigns.