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Quotation from Pericles' Funeral Oration by Pericles

“judging happiness to be the fruit of freedom and freedom of valour, never decline the dangers of war.”

Pericles

Pericles' Funeral Oration, Book II.43, trans. Richard Crawley (1874)

Portrait of Pericles

The charge to the survivors to take the dead as their model.

Citation: "judging happiness to be the fruit of freedom and freedom of valour, never decline the dangers of war." — Pericles, Pericles' Funeral Oration, Book II.43, trans. Richard Crawley (1874). (id pericles-funeral-oration-q7)

Virtues: Fortitude

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

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