Thus each component, 1 inadequate on its own, requires the help of the other.)Ģ. (For, before you begin, there is need for deliberation, and for prompt action after you have deliberated. Yet for a long time there was a big dispute among mortals whether success in war depends more on bodily strength or mental excellence.
For the renown of riches and beauty is fleeting and fragile excellence is a shining and lasting possession. Accordingly, it seems to me more proper to seek renown with the resources of intellect than of physical strength, and since the life we enjoy is itself brief, to make the memory of ourselves as lasting as possible. All our power, however, is situated in mind and body we employ the mind to rule, the body rather to serve the one we have in common with the gods, the other with beasts. All humans who are keen to surpass other animals had best strive with all their might not to pass through life without notice, like cattle, which nature has fashioned bent over and subservient to their stomachs. THE WAR WITH CATILINE THE WAR WITH CATILINEġ. Igitur initio reges -nam in terris nomen imperi id primum fuit -divorsi pars ingenium, alii corpus exercebant etiam tum vita hominum sine cupiditate agitabatur sua quoique satis placebant. 7 Ita utrumque per se indigens alterum alterius auxilio eget.Ģ.
6 Nam et prius quam incipias, consulto, et ubi consulueris, mature facto opus est. 3 Quo mihi rectius 1 videtur ingeni quam virium opibus gloriam quaerere, et, quoniam vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est, memoriam nostri quam maxume longam efficere 4 nam divitiarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis est, virtus clara aeternaque habetur.ĥ Sed diu magnum inter mortalis certamen fuit vine corporis an virtute animi res militaris magis procederet. 2 Sed nostra omnis vis in animo et corpore sita est animi imperio, corporis servitio magis utimur alterum nobis cum dis, alterum cum beluis commune est. Omnis homines qui sese student praestare ceteris animalibus summa ope niti decet ne vitam silentio transeant veluti pecora, quae natura prona atque ventri oboedientia finxit.
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