19. 合於利而動不合於利而止

If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where

you are.

This is repeated from XI. § 17. Here I feel convinced that it is an

interpolation, for it is evident that § 20 ought to follow immediately

on § 18. For 動, the _T‘ung Tien_ and _Yü Lan_ have 用. Capt. Calthrop

invents a sentence which he inserts before this one: “Do not make war

unless victory may be gained thereby.” While he was about it, he might

have credited Sun Tzŭ with something slightly less inane.

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