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• To face calamity with a mind as unclouded as may be, and quickly to react against it-that in a city and in an individual-is real strength.

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  Real, Cities, Mind

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• For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

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  Children, Men, Political

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• Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

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  Time, Life And Love, Waiting

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• Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

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  Beautiful, Squash, Mind

  Funeral Oration, Athens, 430 B.C., in Thucydides 'History of the Peloponnesian War' ii.40, 1 (translation by Rex Warner)

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• I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public humiliation. A man may be personally ever so well off, and yet if his country be ruined he must be ruined with it; whereas a flourishing commonwealth always affords chances of salvation to unfortunate individuals.

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  Country, Greatness, Men

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• If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty.

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  Men, Athens, Glory

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• Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft. We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as
  something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

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  Beautiful, Real, Mind

  Funeral Oration, Athens, 430 B.C., in Thucydides 'History of the Peloponnesian War' ii.40, 1 (translation by Rex Warner)

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• Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.

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  Work, Able, Poverty

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• The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

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  Reality, Men, Stories

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• Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world, it is because she never bent before disaster; because she has expended more life and effort in war than any other city, and has won for herself a power greater than any hitherto known, the memory of which will descend to the latest posterity.

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  Country, Memories, War

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• Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.

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  Teacher, Time, Lessons

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• An Athenian citizen does not neglect his state because he takes care of his own household; even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We do not regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs as harmless. We do not say that such a man 'minds his own business'. Rather we say he has no business here at all.

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  Dark, Men, Ideas

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• Your great glory is not to be inferior to what you have been given by nature, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men, whether theyare praising or criticizing you.

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  Men, Glory, Praise

  Address to women in the Funerary Oration. Quoted in Thucydides History of the PeloponnesianWar, 2.45.2 (translated by RWarner,1961).

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• The marketplace is democratic.

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  Democratic, Marketplace

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• We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.

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  Fall, Needs, Delight

  "Eternal Greece". Book by Rex Warner, 1961.

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• Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again

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  Growing Up, Cutting, Men

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• For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men.

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  Country, Heart, Men

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• For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.

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  Hero, Heart, Land

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