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Quote from Thucydides,

As the world goes, right 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 (more quotes by Thucydides or books by/about Thucydides)


[Thoukudídês] (c.455-c.400 BC) Greek historian, author of the History of the Peloponnesian War

Source:

The Peloponesian War, Book V, section 89

Categories:

Power, Right

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