Historical literatureHappiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.PericlesThucydides, Funeral Oration, History of the Peloponnesian War · 430 BC★ 7.5
Speech · Political speech · Historical literatureWe are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without unmanliness. Wealth is to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degradation to make no effort to overcome.PericlesThucydides, Funeral Oration, History of the Peloponnesian War · 430 BC★ 7.0
Play · Comedy (play)Time’s the king of men. He’s both their parent, and he is their grave, And gives them what he will, not what they crave.William ShakespearePericles, Prince of Tyre · 1608★ 5.5
Historical literatureOur love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.PericlesThucydides, Funeral Oration, History of the Peloponnesian War · 430 BC★ 3.8
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