Know Yourself and Know the Enemy

From The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Self-knowledge combined with knowledge of the adversary guarantees safety in any engagement; ignorance of either ensures defeat.
Chapter 3, verse 18

'If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither, you will succumb in every battle.' Sun Tzu's epistemological maxim.

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