Thucydides (c. 460-400 BCE)
"To pay back a just debt by acting unjustly is more disgraceful than not to pay at all."
- History of the Peloponnesian War (Book III) by Thucydides, translated by Rex Warner (Penguin Classics, 1972). The quote comes from a speech that Thucydides wrote while in the character of a Theban diplomat.
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