Do not pin your hopes on the blunders of your enemies

Those among us who are able to exercise even a modicum of reason ought not to rest our hopes of safety upon the blunders of our enemies but upon our own management of affairs and upon our own judgement.   Isocrates.  On the Peace.  Speech 8.  Section 60.


Image: Figurehead of the sailing ship “Solon” that participated in naval battles of Greek revolution 1821-1829 at the National Historic Museum of Greece courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Macedon-40.

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