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May Quotes by Pericles
- Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
- 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…
- I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public humiliation. A man…
- Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
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