“Bestow rewards without respect to customary practice; publish orders without respect to precedent. Thus you may employ the entire army as you would one man.”

—  Sun Tzu

Source: The Art of War, Chapter XI · The Nine Battlegrounds

Original

施无法之赏，悬无政之令。犯三军之众，若使一人。

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