Thucydides

Thucydides (c. 460-400 BCE)

“I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.”

  • From a speech included in the History of the Peloponnesian War (Book 4, section 61) by Thucydides, translated by Rex Warner (Penguin Classics, 1972).

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