The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.


The History of the Peloponnesian War (ed. 1874)

Thucydides Quotes

The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once...

The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once...

The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once...

The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once...