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"Putting this, however, aside, for it is a puzzling question for which it

is difficult to find a solution, let us return to the superiority of arms

over letters, a uments put

forward on each side; for besides those I have mentioned, letters say

that without them arms cannot overned by the to the domain of letters

and men of letters To this arms make answer that without them laws

cannot be doms

preserved, cities protected, roads made safe, seas cleared of pirates;

and, in short, if it were not for thedoms, monarchies,

cities, ways by sea and land would be exposed to the violence and

confusion which war brings with it, so long as it lasts and is free to

es and powers And then it is plain that whatever

costs most is valued and deserves to be valued most To attain to

eer, nakedness,

headaches, indigestions, and other things of the sort, some of which I

have already referred to But for a ood soldier costs hiree, for at every step he runs the risk of losing

his life For what dread of want or poverty that can reach or harass the

student can couered in souard in so a mine towards the post where

he is stationed, and cannot under any circuer that threatens hi on so that he round in fear and expectation of the

s and descend into

the deep against his will And if this see risk, let us see

whether it is equalled or surpassed by the encounter of two galleys steled one with the