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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.

    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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