The History of the Peloponnesian War

“Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.”

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“Hope, danger's comforter”

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“...knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset.”

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“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.”

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“Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it.”

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“Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.”

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“In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.”

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