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How can the tree flourish if its roots have dried up? Likewise here: how long will there be no necessary order in the state, whence warlike valor? When a commander does not constantly strengthen his army, he will sooner be defeated than victorious. You, therefore, scorning all this, only praise valor, but on what exactly valor is founded - you do not care.

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How can the tree flourish if its roots have dried up? Likewise here: how long will there be no necessary order in the state, whence warlike valor? When a commander does not constantly strengthen his army, he will sooner be defeated than victorious. You, therefore, scorning all this, only praise valor, but on what exactly valor is founded - you do not care.

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"Cum să poată înflori copacul, dacă i s-au uscat rădăcinile? La fel și aici: câtă vreme în stat nu va fi ordinea necesară, de unde vitejie razboinică? Când un comandant nu-și întărește constant armata, el va fi mai de grabă învins, decât învingător. Tu, așadar, disprețuind toate acestea, lauzi doar vitejia, dar pe ce anume se întemeiază vitejia - pe tine nu te interesează."

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