Inn of the Lost

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Pericles Funeral Oration

Posted by Paul Li on September 15, 2011

“Philokaloumen te gar met’euteleias kai philosophoumen aneu malakias”-

“We are lovers of nobility with restraint, and lovers of wisdom without any softening of character.”- by Pericles in Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War ii.35

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