bellantis

Updated: June 22, 2025

"Nec nisi bellantis gaudet cervice juvenci" stops when it sees the enemy at its mercy; but pusillanimity, to say that it was also in the game, not having dared to meddle in the first act of danger, takes as its part the second, of blood and massacre.

Michel de Montaigne - The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 12