they possess most gold and silver, by which war, like everything else, flourishes.


Book VI, 6.34; "they have abundance of gold and silver, and these make war, like other things, go smoothly" (trans. Benjamin Jowett) - History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides Quotes

They possess most gold and silver, by which war, like everything else, flourishes.

They possess most gold and silver, by which war, like everything else, flourishes.

They possess most gold and silver, by which war, like everything else, flourishes.

They possess most gold and silver, by which war, like everything else, flourishes.