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“I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usually goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
— Thucydides
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History of the Peloponnesian War / Book III, Book III, 3.42-[1] (Speech of Diodotus).
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