Your great glory is not to be inferior to what God has made you, and the greatest glory… — Pericles
Your great glory is not to be inferior to what God has made you, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men, whether they are praising you or criticizing you.
In the original Greek
βραχείᾳ παραινέσει ἅπαν σημανῶ. τῆς τε γὰρ ὑπαρχούσης φύσεως μὴ χείροσι γενέσθαι ὑμῖν μεγάλη ἡ δόξα καὶ ἧς ἂν ἐπ᾽ ἐλάχιστον ἀρετῆς πέρι ἢ ψόγου ἐν τοῖς ἄρσεσι κλέος ᾖ.
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.
