"For it is a habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not fancy." | by: | Thucydides [Thoukudídês] (c.455-c.400 BC) Greek historian, author of the History of the Peloponnesian War |
Source: | History of the Peloponnesian War p. 276 Book 4 |
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