When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
ThucydidesWhat made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
ThucydidesFor the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection.
ThucydidesFor so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
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