A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.
In war there is no substitute for victory.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.
Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.