Book 9
21
So much for those who aspire to be leaders and statesmen and are yet ignorant and puzzled about such facts as these. . . .
21
Those who do not enter upon undertakings with good will and zeal cannot be expected to give real help when the time comes to act. . . .
21b
Such being the position of the Romans and Carthaginians, Fortune continually oscillating between the two, we may say with the poet
21b
Pain hard by joy possessed the souls of each.Cp. Homer, Odyss. 19, 471. . . .
21b
There is profound truth in the observation which I have often made, that it is impossible to grasp or get a complete view of the fairest of all subjects of contemplation, the tendency of history as a whole, from writers of partial histories. . . .
