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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
— Pericles
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Pericles
politician, military personnel, statesperson, orator, army officer
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Pericles was a Greek statesman
and general during the Golden Age of Athens. He was prominent and influential in Ancient Athenian politics, particularly between the Greco-Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War, and was acclaimed by Thucydides, a contemporary historian, as "the first citizen of Athens". Pericles turned the Delian League into an Athenian empire and led his countrymen during the first two years of the Peloponnesian War. The period during which he led Athens as its preeminent orator and statesman, roughly from 461 to 429 BC, is sometimes known as the "Age of Pericles", but the period thus denoted can include times as early as the Persian Wars or as late as the following century.
All Quotes by Pericles
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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The whole Earth is the Sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on Stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.
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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Time is the wisest counselor of all.
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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
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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.
— Pericles