But the palm of courage will surely be adjudged most justly to those, who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.
Pericles (as recorded by Thucydides)
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- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II, funeral oration; translated by Richard Crawley; Complete sentence from Thucydides’ account of Pericles’ funeral oration. Attribution identifies the literary historical record, not a verbatim contemporary transcript.
- History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II, funeral oration; translated by Richard Crawley
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