Thucydides (c. 460-400 BCE)
"Hope is by nature an expensive commodity, and those who are risking their all on one cast find out what it means only when they are already ruined."
- History of the Peloponnesian War (Book V, section 103) by Thucydides, translated by Rex Warner (Penguin Classics, 1972).
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