“my [antidote for] all Platonism has always been Thucydides. Thucydides and, per

—“my [antidote for] all Platonism has always been Thucydides. Thucydides and, perhaps, Machiavelli’s [The Prince] are most closely related to me by the unconditional will not to delude oneself, but to see reason in reality — not in “reason,” still less in “morality.” — Nietzsche

—‘The unconditional will not to delude oneself’—

Priceless.