Book 1, Chapter 8 “A Decision in Cold Blood” (p. 233)
The Land Leviathan (1974)
“A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean”
Source: The Story of Civilization (1935–1975), II - Life of Greece (1939), Ch. I: Crete, Section IV: The Fall of Cnossus, P.51
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