this, so it was that he chose to recall the forces he had beyond the
other hand, imagine that, being.html">being at home.html">home.html">home and amongst his friends, he could
he had at his devotion would bring him in both provisions and money in
subjects by so much the more affectionate to him, by how much their
barriers to secure him, it would be in his power.html">power to give the law of
to delay the time, under cover and at his ease he might see his enemy
encounter, being engaged in a hostile country.html">country, where before, behind, and
to enlarge his quarters, should diseases infest them, or to lodge his
lance; no leisure to repose and take breath; no knowledge of the ways or
a battle, no possible means of saving the remains. Neither is there want
Africa than to stay at home to defend his own and to fight him in Italy,
same war.html">war ruined himself by abandoning the conquest of a foreign country
own dominions to go over into Sicily, were not favoured by fortune.html">fortune.html">fortune.html">fortune in
him when he went over into Africa and left the war at home.
By which examples we are wont to conclude, and with some reason.html">reason, that
will not be governed by nor.html">nor submit unto human reasons and prudence,
Nec fortune probat causas, sequiturque merentes,
Scilicet est aliud, quod nos cogatque regatque
fortune inquire into causes, nor aid the most deserving, but turns
greater power which directs and rules us, and brings mortal affairs
deliberations depend as much upon fortune as anything else we do, and
"We argue rashly and adventurously," says Timaeus in Plato, "by reason
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