A quotation from Montaigne

It is dangerous to attack a man whom you have deprived of every means of escape except by fighting, for necessity is a violent schoolmistress.
 
[Il fait dangereux assaillir un homme, à qui vous avez osté tout autre moyen d’eschapper que par les armes : car c’est une violente maistresse d’escole que la necessité.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essay (1572), “Of the Uncertainty of Our Judgment [De l’incertitude de nostre jugement],” Essays, Book 1, ch. 47 (1.47) (1595) [tr. Cohen (1958)]

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A quotation from Fuller, Thomas (1654):

«
Give not thy Enemy Despair; for it is a weapon more dangerous than Valour it self.
»

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https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/72299/

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