You know as well as we do that right, as the word goes, is only in question between… — Thucydides
You know as well as we do that right, as the word goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
In the original Greek
δυνατὰ δὲ οἱ προύχοντες πράσσουσι καὶ οἱ ἀσθενεῖς ξυγχωροῦσιν.
History of the Peloponnesian War · 404 BC
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Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War, translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 5.
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Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 431 BC, bk. 5.
