404 BC · Skopia

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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.

History of the Peloponnesian War · 404 BC

★ 7.0

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For a city consists of men, and not of walls nor ships empty of men.

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War · 404 BC

★ 3.9

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Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.

History of the Peloponnesian War · 404 BC

★ 3.8

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Great is the glory of the woman who occasions the least talk among men, whether of praise or of blame.

History of the Peloponnesian War · 404 BC

★ 1.3

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The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest.

History of the Peloponnesian War · 404 BC

★ 1.3

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The great wish of some is to avenge themselves on some particular enemy, the great wish of others to save their own pocket. Slow in assembling, they devote a very small fraction of the time to the consideration of any public object, most of it to the prosecution of their own objects. Meanwhile each fancies that no harm will come of his neglect, that it is the business of somebody else to look after this or that for him; and so, by the same notion being entertained by all separately, the common cause imperceptibly decays.

History of the Peloponnesian War · 404 BC

★ 1.2