But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them… — Pericles
But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
In the original Greek
λογισμὸς δὲ ὄκνον φέρει. κράτιστοι δ᾽ ἂν τὴν ψυχὴν δικαίως κριθεῖεν οἱ τά τε δεινὰ καὶ ἡδέα σαφέστατα γιγνώσκοντες καὶ διὰ ταῦτα μὴ ἀποτρεπόμενοι ἐκ τῶν κινδύνων.
Quoted in Funeral Oration, History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides · 430 BC
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Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War, translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2.
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Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 431 BC, bk. 2.