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Rh 4. Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardour damped, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up to take advantage of your extremity. Then no man, however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue.
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5. Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays