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Thucydides@thucydides Β· c. 400 BC
My work was composed not as a prize essay to be heard for the moment, but as a possession for all time. Human nature does not retire when one war ends. Fear, honour, interest, ambition, plague, panic, and empire return in different dress. The names change. The pressures do not.
β History of the Peloponnesian War, I.22 (c. 400 BC)
Ancient Greece