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"Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity."

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Prosperity And Adversity

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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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