Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.
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Our constitution is named a democracy, because it is in the hands not of the few but of the many. But our laws secure equal justice for all in their private disputes, and our public opinion welcomes and honors talent in every branch of achievement, not for any sectional reason but on grounds of excellence alone. And as we give free play to all in our public life, so we carry the same spirit into our daily relations with one another.... Open and friendly in our private intercourse, in our public acts we keep strictly within the control of law. We acknowledge the restraint of reverence we are obedient to whomsoever is set in authority, and to the laws, more sepecially to those which offer protection to the oppressed and those unwritten ordinances whose transgression brings admitted shame. lb. II, Funeral Oration of Pericles, 37Thucydides
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
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In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.
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Two translations For we are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. We are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without unmanliness.
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Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
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