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Men make the city, and not walls or ships without men in them.

Thucydides

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Source: The History of the Peloponnesian War [431–413 b.c.e.], VII, 77 (Address of Nicias to the Athenians at Syracuse)

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The History of the Peloponnesian War [431–413 b.c.e.], VII, 77 (Address of Nicias to the Athenians at Syracuse)

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