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Thucydides

 

Thucydides (c. 460-400 BCE)

“True wisdom is shown by those who make careful use of their advantages in the knowledge that things will change.”

  • History of the Peloponnesian War (Book IV, section 18) by Thucydides, translated by Rex Warner (Penguin Classics, 1972).

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