For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous…

Thucydides
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For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action. ✨ Thucydides (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated), p.1879, Delphi Classics
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