If you know yourself but not the enemy$$$ for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying$$$ and thereby they achieve great results.

But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

Bravery without forethought$$$ causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull. Such an opponent$$$ must not be encountered with brute force$$$ but may be lured into an ambush and slain.

Yet if she did not quite exist in the full flood of sunlight$$$ which is the hackneyed metaphor for good health$$$ she was comfortably and safely far away from that abyssal darkness down into which she had nearly strayed.

Through some happy accident of heredity he had escaped his father's tediousness$$$ while retaining a little of his mother's jolly high spirits and humor. This did not make him anything special$$$ but at least he was good-natured.

What man has nerve to do$$$ man has not nerve to hear.

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.

Nowadays$$$ an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.

The universe is deterministic all right$$$ just like Newton said$$$ I mean it's trying to be$$$ but the only thing going wrong is people fancying people who aren't supposed to be in that part of the plan.