Michel de Montaigne,
Essays — The Fifth Chapter: Whether the Captaine of a Place Besieged ought to sallie forth to Parlie
“ I am easily perswaded to yeeld to other mens words and faith, but hardly would I doe it, when I should give other men cause to imagine, that I had rather done it through despare and want of courage, than of a free and voluntary choise, and confidence in his honestie and well-meaning. ”
Michel de Montaigne,
Essays — The Fifth Chapter: Whether the Captaine of a Place Besieged ought to sallie forth to Parlie
“ To deceive may serve for the instant but hee only is judged to be overcome, that knowes he was not vanquished by craft or deceit, nor by fortune or chance, but by meere valour, betweene troupe and troupe, in an overt and just warre. ”
Michel de Montaigne,
Essays — The Fifth Chapter: Whether the Captaine of a Place Besieged ought to sallie forth to Parlie
“ As for us, who are lesse superstitious, and deeme him to have the honour of the warre, that hath the profit of it, and according to Lisander, say, that Where the Lions-skinne will not suffice, wee must adde a scantling of the Foxes ”
