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Therefore Julius with his impetuous action accomplished what no

other pontiff with simple human wisdom could have done; for if he

had waited in Rome until he could get away, with his plans

arranged and everything fixed, as any other pontiff would have

done, he would never have succeeded. Because the King of France

would have made a thousand excuses, and the others would have

raised a thousand fears.

I will leave his other actions alone, as they were all alike, and

they all succeeded, for the shortness of his life did not let him

experience the contrary; but if circumstances had arisen which

required him to go cautiously, his ruin would have followed,

because he would never have deviated from those ways to which

nature inclined him.