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  • In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

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    "History of the Peloponnesian War". Book by Thucydides, Book VIII, 8.89, 431–404 BC.

  • We must not disguise from ourselves that we go to found a city among strangers and enemies, and he who undertakes such an enterprise should be prepared to become master of the country the first day he lands, or failing in this find everything hostile to him.

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    Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

  • Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.

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    "The History of the Peloponnesian War".
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Thucydides

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