Our discipline makes us both brave in war and sensible in policy: brave, because restraint is the greater part of shame, and shame the greater part of courage; sensible, because our tough training leaves us too naive to question the laws and too controlled to disobey them. We are not schooled in that useless over-intelligence which can make a brilliant verbal attack on the enemies’ plans but fail to match it in consequent action. Rather we are taught to believe that other people’s minds are similar to ours, and that no theory can determine the accidents of chance. It is always our principle to
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