ABSTRACT
We had won, but, as I expected, our real difficulties were now to appear. I had, moreover, always held to the maxim that it is after some great success that the most dangerous threats of ruin usually emerge; while the danger lasts, one has only one's adversaries against one, and one triumphs over them, but after victory one begins to have trouble with oneself, one's slackness, one's pride, and the rash security bom of success; and one succumbs.
