As one was disuading _Marcus Brutus_ from fighting, he said: _What harm can I get by it? I can but overcome or die_. And as some advised him after his defeat to save himself by flight: _A Man_, said he, _ought to save himself with his Hands, and not with his Feet_. 146 _Marcus Brutus_, qu’on vouloit détourner d’aller au Combat, dit: _Quel mal peut-il m’en arriver? je ne puis que vaincre ou mourir_. Et sur ce que quelques uns lui conseilloient après sa defaite de se sauver par la fuite: _Il se faut_, dit-il, _sauver avec les Mains, & non pas avec les Pieds_. 147 King _Agis_, said: _One ought never to ask how many, but where the Enemys are_. 147 Le Roy _Agis_ disoit: _Il ne faut jamais demander combien, mais où sont les Ennemis_. 148 _Augustus_ hearing that _Alexander_ having conquered the best part of the World, was at a loss how to spend the remainder of his Days, he was surpriz’d at that Thought: _Why_, said he, _was_ Alexander _then ignorant that the well governing a conquered State, is a more important Employment than the making of new Conquests?_ 148 _Auguste_ entendant dire qu’_Alexandre_, après avoir conquis la plus grande partie de la Terre, ètoit en peine de sçavoir à quoi il pourroit occuper la reste de ses jours fut surpris de ce sentiment là: _Hé quoi_, dit-il, Alexandre _ignoroit donc que bien gouverner un Empire conquis, est un Emploi plus considerable, que de faire de nouvelles Conquêtes?_ 149 The Beginnings of _Augustus_’s Reign were fatal to the _Roman_ Empire, by reason of his Cruelties, and the disorders he occasion’d. But as the latter end of his Reign was quite different, and rendred the Empire more flourishing than ever, ’twas said of him: _That it were to be wished, either that he had never come into the World, or never gone out of it_. 149 Les commencemens du Regne d’_Auguste_ furent pernicieux à l’Empire _Romain_, à cause de ses cruautez, & des désordres qu’il causa; mais comme la fin de son Regne toute differente, rendit l’Empire plus florissant que jamais, on dit de lui: _Qu’il eût été à souhaiter, ou qu’il ne fut jamais venu au monde, ou qu’il n’en fut jamais sorti_. 150 _Scilerus_, who had many Children, being at the point of Death, gave every one of them a bundle of Arrows, and commanded them to break it. And as they all made answer, that the thing was impossible, he pulled out the Arrows, and broke them one by one; and from thence took occasion to tell them: _By this, my Children, you ought to learn, that as long as you are well united together, you shall ever be invincible, and formidable to your Enemies: But if on the contrary you let divisions creep in amongst you, you will grow weak and easy to be overcome._ 150