GetPassage urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0003.tlg001.perseus-eng6:5.102.1 urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0003.tlg001.perseus-eng6:5.102.1

‘But we know that the fortune of war is sometimes more impartial than the disproportion of numbers might lead one to suppose; to submit is to give ourselves over to despair, while action still preserves for us a hope that we may stand erect.’