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Plato429–349 BC

There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes; the greatest have been brought about by the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes.

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Timaeus, 22c (tr. Benjamin Jowett)

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