We secure our friends not by accepting favors, but by doing them. — Pericles
We secure our friends not by accepting favors, but by doing them.
In the original Greek
καὶ τὰ ἐς ἀρετὴν ἐνηντιώμεθα τοῖς πολλοῖς: οὐ γὰρ πάσχοντες εὖ
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.