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| 1 It becomes all men,
who desire to excel other animals, to strive, to the utmost of their power, not
to pass through life in obscurity, like the beasts of the field, which nature
has formed groveling and subservient to appetite. All our power is situate in
the mind and in the body. Of the mind we rather employ the government; of the
body, the service. The one is common to us with the gods; the other with the
brutes. It appears to me, therefore, more reasonable to pursue glory by means
of the intellect than of bodily strength, and, since the life which we enjoy is
short, to make the remembrance of us as lasting as possible. For the glory of
wealth and beauty is fleeting and perishable; that of intellectual power is
illustrious and immortal. Yet it was long a subject of dispute among mankind, whether military efforts were more advanced by strength of body, or by force of intellect. For, in affairs of war, it is necessary to plan before beginning to act, and, after planning, to act with promptitude and vigor. Thus, each being insufficient of itself, the one requires the assistance of the other. |
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