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30. Violence

  powerful men are well advised not to use violence,

  for violence has a habit of returning;

  thorns and weeds grow wherever an army goes,

  and lean years follow a great war.

  a general is well advised

  to achieve nothing more than his orders:

  not to take advantage of his victory.

  nor to glory, boast or pride himself;

  to do what is dictated by necessity,

  but not by choice.

  for even the strongest force will weaken with time,

  and then its violence will return, and kill it.

  

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