Excerpt from Considérations sur les Causes de la Grandeur des Romains Et de Leur DécadenceDans nos combats d'aujourd'hui un particulier n'a guère de confiance qu'en la multitude mais chaque, Romain plus robuste et plus aguerri que son ennemi, comptoit toujours sur lui - même, il avoit naturellement du courage, c'est - àÿdire de cette vertu qui est le sentiment de ses propres forces.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.