《吕氏春秋·览·孝行览》
不如不给它粮食而去攻打它，这本来是普通的道理。
不若勿与而攻之，固其数也。
It would be better not to give it grain and attack it, which is a common sense.
<s>[INST] Render the following Classical Chinese text into fluent English: 不若勿与而攻之，固其数也。 [/INST] It would be better not to give it grain and attack it, which is a common sense.</s>
Render the following Classical Chinese text into fluent English: 不若勿与而攻之，固其数也。
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It would be better not to give it grain and attack it, which is a common sense.
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