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Quotation from Pericles' Funeral Oration by Pericles

“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.”

Pericles

Pericles' Funeral Oration, Book II.40, trans. Richard Crawley (1874)

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Pericles describes how ordinary Athenians judge public matters through debate.

Citation: "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." — Pericles, Pericles' Funeral Oration, Book II.40, trans. Richard Crawley (1874). (id pericles-funeral-oration-q4)

Virtues: Prudence

Portrait: Discurso funebre pericles, Philipp Foltz, Public domain.

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