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Cities Quotes by Thucydides
- A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous citizen…
- It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
- In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.
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