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Pericles

Athenian statesman, orator and general

494–429 BC

5 quotes.

But 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.
Pericles’ Funeral Oration
- Courage
We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.
As quoted in David Held, Models of Democracy (2006), p. 14
- Politics
Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.
Funeral Oration, in Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, 2.40 (tr. Richard Crawley)
- Debate
Nor is it any longer possible for you to give up this empire … Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 2, chapter 63: Pericles’ third speech
- Power
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.
Pericles’ Funeral Oration (431 BC)
- Fame
- Life & Death

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