“The most profound and convincing historian of empire,” Thucydides knew a lot about today’s politics.

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A victory won by treachery gave one a title for superior intelligence. And indeed most people are more ready to call villainy cleverness than simple-mindedness honesty. They are proud of the first quality and ashamed of the second.

↩︎ The New York Review of Books

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