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Pericles: Our love of...

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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

Source: Part of the funeral oration, 430 BC, for the dead of the first year of the Peloponnesian War. Attrib. in Histories, Bk. II, Ch. 40 (Thucydides)
-- Pericles, ( 495BC-429BC), Greek statesman;


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