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To your rash
advisers, who are so eager to hurry you into war, I have this to say, that it is
not difficult, when deliberation is needed, to gain a reputation for courage,
nor when danger is at hand, to display skill in oratory; but there is something
that is both difficult and essential—to display courage in the face of
danger, and in deliberation to offer sounder advice than one's fellows.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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