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ITT: Masterful writing

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Sometimes I am grateful death is an ontological reality none of us will escape from

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I do, however, know this much: if everyone in the world were to bring his own problems to market with the intention of trading with his neighbors, a glimpse of his neighbors' problems would make him glad to take back home the ones he came with. The Histories, 7.152

Before battle was joined, they say that someone from Trachis warned him how many Persians there were by saying that when they fired their bows, they hid the sun with the mass of arrows. Dianeces, so the story goes, was so dismissive of the Persian numbers that he calmly replied: "All to the good, my friend from Trachis. If the Persians hide the sun, the battle will be in the shade rather than sunlight. The Histories, 7.226

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