[Who] with reason assists the people's master,
the one not with arms strengthens the empire.
His business methods render good [make welcome] repayment [requital].
An army's place [which] it occupies,
briars and thorns grow there.
A great war's sequence [after] surely are bad harvests.
The good one [is] resolute and that is all [then he stops].
Not dares he thereby to take by force.
One should be resolute, and not boasting;
resolute, and not haughty [bragging]
resolute, but not arrogant;
resolute, but [only when] not he can avoid [it];
resolute, but not violent.
Things flourish then they decay.
This is called unreason.
Unreason soon ends.
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