..since you know as well as we do that right, as the world … - Thucydides

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..since you know as well as we do that 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 they must.

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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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the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

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Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.

Those who do wrong to a neighbor when there is no reason to do so are the ones who persevere to the point of destroying him since they see the danger involved in allowing their enemy to survive.

They stood where they stood by the power of the sword.

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