Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong t… - Thucydides

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Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

Thucydides

The History of the Peloponnesian War · 1526 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Thucydides (or Thoukydides)(c. 472 BC – c. 400 BC) was an ancient Greek historian, author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens. This work is widely regarded a classic and represents the first work of its kind.

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Native Name: Θουκυδίδης

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especially as they did not trust one another.

The longer a war lasts, the more things tend to depend on accidents. Neither you nor we can see into them: We have to abide their outcome in the dark.

(Corcyraeans:) The policy of not making alliances lest they should endanger us at another's bidding, instead of being wisdom, as we once fancied, has now unmistakably proved to be weakness and folly.

(Book 1 Chapter 32.4)

Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go. - Thucydides

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