At the moment of combat the Zenoli soldier must be free of all prior thoughts and emotions.
Priors unbalance any thrust or response.
Priors will kill you.
Active preconceptions will kill you.
Fixed intentions will kill you.
Old emotions, grudges, resentments, angers, hatreds, loves, enthusiasms will kill you.
A soldier who enters combat hating his enemy is already a soldier doomed to failure; his hatred will blind him to the thrust that kills him or blinds him in victory so that his victory is taken from him.
A soldier who is afraid of his enemy is doomed.
A soldier who loves his enemy is doomed.
A soldier who is thinking about his enemy is doomed.
At the moment of combat the Zenoli soldier is poised, inertialess, ready to act in any direction -- like a marble at the top of a smooth multidimensional hill.

The Zenoli Combat Manual
18th Edition, Founder's Era 873

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