Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power,
While the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, Animal Farm
My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the needs of an immediate public,
but was done to last forever.
Thucydides