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
Historical literatureYou know as well as we do that right, as the word goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.ThucydidesHistory of the Peloponnesian War · 404 BC★ 7.0
Historical literatureFor a city consists of men, and not of walls nor ships empty of men.NiciasThucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War · 404 BC★ 3.9
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