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Power Quotes by Thucydides
- Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
- Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what…
- When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one…
- If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit above justice... in…
- What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
- Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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