"The strategists have the sayings: “When you doubt your ability to meet the enemy's attack, Take the offensive yourself” And “If you doubt your ability to advance an inch, then retreat a foot”. This latter is what we call to march without moving, To roll the sleeve, but present no bare arm, The hand that seems to hold, yet had no weapon in it, A host that can confront, yet presents no battle-front. Now the greatest of all calamities is to attack and find no enemy. I can have no enemy only at the price of losing my treasure. Therefore when armies are raised And issues joined it is he who does not delight in war that wins."

- ~Lao Tzu, The Way and Its Power, #69