Some great words from Pericles:
"For a private man, though in good estate, if his country comes to ruin, must of necessity be ruined with it; whereas he that miscarries in a flourishing commonwealth shall much more easily preserved" (Ch.60).
"Men do no less condemn those that through cowardice lose the glory they have, than hate those that through imprudence arrogate the glory they have not" (Ch.61).
"The quiet life can never be preserved if it be not ranged with the active life, nor is it a life conductible to a city that reigns but to a subject city that it may safely serve" (Ch.63).
"Evils that come from heaven you must bear necessarily, and such as proceed from your enemies, valiantly" (Ch.64).
"To be hated and to displease is a thing that happens for the time to whosoever he be that hath the command of others; and he does well, that undergoes the hatred for matters of great consequence" (Ch.64).
"They whose minds least feel and whose actions most oppose a calamity both among states and private persons are the best" (Ch.64)
(Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War: Book II)
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