Living_Oracles(i)
28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first, by himself, compute the expense, to know whether he have the means to complete it;
29 lest, having laid the foundation, and being unable to finish, he become the derision of all who see it;
30 who will say, This man began to build, but was not able to finish.
31 Or what king, going to engage another king, with whom he is at war, does not first consult, by himself, whether he can, with ten thousand men, encounter him who comes against him with twenty thousand;
32 that if he can not, he may, while the other is at a distance, send an embassy to sue for peace.