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Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this.

Sun Tzu
Art, War, Ruins
Sun Tzu, Shang Yang (1997). “The Art of War”, p.25, Wordsworth Editions
Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this.