Pericles Quotes About Glory

Quotes about: Glory

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

  Pericles

  Men, Athens, Glory

• 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.

  Pericles

  Men, Glory, Praise

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

• A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

  Pericles

  Men, Littles, Glory

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