“As to what happened next, it is possible to maintain that the hand of heaven was involved, and also possible to say that when men are desperate no one can stand up to them.”

—  Xenophon

Hellenica Bk. 7, as translated by Rex Warner in A History of My Times (1979) p. 398.

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ancient Greek historian and philosopher -430–-354 BC

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