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Great Quotes by Thucydides
- The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by…
- The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense…
- Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out, believing…
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