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"Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger."

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About Thucydides

Thucydides was an ancient Greek historian and Athenian general best known for History of the Peloponnesian War. His approach to evidence and causation made his work foundational for later political and historical analysis.

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