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  • War is an evil thing; but to submit to the dictation of other states is worse.... Freedom, if we hold fast to it, will ultimately restore our losses, but submission will mean permanent loss of all that we value.... To you who call yourselves men of peace, I say: You are not safe unless you have men of action on your side.

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  • Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

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    Thucydides (1974). “History of the Peloponnesian War”, p.279, Penguin UK

  • The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.

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    Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.200, Simon and Schuster
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Thucydides

  • Born: 460 BC
  • Died: 395 BC
  • Occupation: Historian
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