[b]Thucydides
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.[/b]
Let’s figure out how that might work here.
When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
Never in other words. Not unlike justice here today.
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
Let’s file this one under, “tell us something we don’t already know”.
When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
That would be most of us by and large.
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
Or certainly close enough.
In general, the men of lower intelligence won out. Afraid of their own shortcomings and of the intelligence of their opponents, so that they would not lose out in reasoned argument or be taken by surprise by their quick-witted opponents, they boldly moved into action. Their enemies, on the contrary, contemptuous and confident in their ability to anticipate, thought there was no need to take by action what they could win by their brains.
In the other words, the Kids took over. And not just here.