aeque prudenter: nam et prospere gerendae rei facultatem omittere maxima dementia est et in angustias utique [pugnandi] compulsum abstinere se proelio pestiferae ignaviae adfert exitum, eorumque qui ista committunt alter beneficio Fortunae uti, alter iniuriae nescit resistere.
No less wisely; for to neglect a chance of successful action is the height of folly, while to hold back from battle when forced unavoidably into a tight corner brings an outcome of disastrous inertia. Of those who make such mistakes, the one does not know how to use Fortunes kindness, the other how to resist her injury.
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