Indeed sensible men are prudent enough to treat their gains as precarious, just as they would also keep a clear head in adversity, and think that war, so far from staying within the limit to which a combatant may wish to confine it, will run the course that its chances prescribe;
Orduan etsaiak bere burua beharturik ikusten duenez, ez indarrez derrigortua izan balitz bezala bere burua defenditzera, baizik haren eskuzabaltasunari neurri berean erantzutera, adosturikoa bere ohorearekin bermatzera prestago sentitzen da.