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And it is just as great a failing in a general to involve himself in disaster from want of foresight, as it is to throw away an opportunity for success from want of confidence.

[Section 2]

(Continuing my journey through Plutarch's Parallel Lives.)

#Plutarch #ParallelLives #PericlesAndFabius 1/

Fabius,

whose eyes beheld many disgraceful defeats, many cruel deaths of imperators and generals,

lakes and plains and forests filled with with slain armies,

and rivers flowing with blood and slaughter to the sea,

put helping and supporting hands to the city, and by his firm and independent course,

prevented her from utter exhaustion through the disasters brought upon her by others.

[Section 1]

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Pericles+Fabius_Maximus*.html

#resistance #DefeatIsNeverFinal