Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. — Pericles
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
In the original Greek
οὓς νῦν ὑμεῖς ζηλώσαντες καὶ τὸ εὔδαιμον τὸ ἐλεύθερον, τὸ δ᾽ ἐλεύθερον τὸ εὔψυχον κρίναντες μὴ περιορᾶσθε τοὺς πολεμικοὺς κινδύνους.
Quoted in Funeral Oration, History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides · 430 BC
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Pericles. Quoted in The Peloponnesian War, translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2.
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Pericles. Quoted in The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 431 BC, bk. 2.