Thucydides Quote
If [my history] should be judged useful by those enquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future…I shall be content.
History of the Peloponnesian War bk. 1, ch. 22 (translated by Richard Crawley, 1874)
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