Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power,…

Thucydides
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Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. ✨ Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). The Landmark Thucydides, p.352, Simon and Schuster
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Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. ✨ Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). The Landmark Thucydides, p.352, Simon and Schuster

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