For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.
speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
For if many ill-conceived plans have succeeded through the still greater lack of judgment of an opponent, many more, apparently well laid, have on the contrary ended in disgrace. The confidence with which we form our schemes is never completely justified in their execution; speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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