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Sun Zi 
– The Art of War
Chinese strategy explained : know yourself and the ennemy, use deception, spies, and "win with ease". Tr. Giles (en, annotated) and Amiot (fr).
Waging War
Ts`ao Kung has the note: "He who wishes to fight must first count the cost," which prepares us for the discovery that the subject of the chapter is not what we might expect from the title, but is primarily a consideration of ways and means.
Sunzi II. 7.
With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and three-tenths of their income will be dissipated;1 while government expenses for broken chariots, worn-out horses, breast-plates and helmets, bows and arrows, spears and shields, protective mantles, draught-oxen and heavy wagons, will amount to four-tenths of its total revenue.
Giles II.13,14.
Le prince perçoit en hâte le tribut des denrées que chaque famille lui doit ; et la misère se répandant du sein des villes jusque dans les campagnes, des dix parties du nécessaire on est obligé d'en retrancher sept. Il n'est pas jusqu'au souverain qui ne ressente sa part des malheurs communs. Ses cuirasses, ses casques, ses flèches, ses arcs, ses boucliers, ses chars, ses lances, ses javelots, tout cela se détruira. Les chevaux, les bœufs même qui labourent les terres du domaine dépériront, et, des dix parties de sa dépense ordinaire, se verra contraint d'en retrancher six.
Amiot
The Art of War – Sun Zi II. 7. – Chinese on/off – Français/English
Alias Sun Tzu, Sun Wu, Sun Tse, Sunzi Bingfa, Souen Tseu, Souen Wou, 孫武.
The Book of Odes, The Analects, Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean, Three-characters book, The Book of Changes, The Way and its Power, 300 Tang Poems, The Art of War, Thirty-Six Strategies
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