A good general discharges his responsibilities with honesty and wisdom

Your ideal of a good general is one who, though loaded with many difficult responsibilities of all sorts, has always discharged them with honesty and wisdom. Isocrates. Antidosis. Speech 15. Sectiion 128. (Condensed)


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