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They possess most gold and silver, by which war, like everything else, flourishes.

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Book VI, 6.34; "they have abundance of gold and silver, and these make war, like other things, go smoothly" ([http://www.classicpersuasion.org/pw/thucydides/jthucbk6rv2.htm trans.] Benjamin Jowett)

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