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Thucydides Quote: “The follies of democracy are universally admitted, and there is nothing new to be said about them.”

151. “The follies of democracy are universally admitted, and there is nothing new to be said about them.”

Thucydides Quote: “All are by nature prone to err both in public and in private life, and no law will prevent them. Men have gone through the whole catalogue of penalties in the hope that, by increasing their severity, they may suffer less at the hands of evil-doers. In early ages the punishments, even of the worst offences, would naturally be milder; but as time went on and mankind continued to transgress, they seldom stopped short of death.”

152. “All are by nature prone to err both in public and in private life, and no law will prevent them. Men have gone through the whole catalogue of penalties in the hope that, by increasing their severity, they may suffer less at the hands of evil-doers. In early ages the punishments, even of the worst offences, would naturally be milder; but as time went on and mankind continued to transgress, they seldom stopped short of death.”

Thucydides Quote: “Once you come forward in the role of liberators, you will find that your strength in the war is enormously increased. -p201.”

153. “Once you come forward in the role of liberators, you will find that your strength in the war is enormously increased. -p201.”

Thucydides Quote: “Each thinks that their inertia will do no harm, and that it is someone else’s responsibility rather than theirs to make some provision for their future: the result is that with all individually sharing this same notion they fail as a body to see their common interest going to ruin.”

154. “Each thinks that their inertia will do no harm, and that it is someone else’s responsibility rather than theirs to make some provision for their future: the result is that with all individually sharing this same notion they fail as a body to see their common interest going to ruin.”

Thucydides Quote: “It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable.”

155. “It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable.”

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