Pericles was a Greek statesman and general during the Golden Age of Athens. He was prominent and influential in Ancient Athenian politics, particularly between the Greco-Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War, and was acclaimed by Thucydides, a contemporary historian, as "the first citizen of Athens". Pericles turned the Delian League into an Athenian empire and led his countrymen during the first two years of the Peloponnesian War. The period during which he led Athens as its preeminent orator and statesman, roughly from 461 to 429 BC, is sometimes known as the "Age of Pericles", but the period thus denoted can include times as early as the Persian Wars or as late as the following century.

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“Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.”
— From Plutarch, Lives, Pericles, sec. 18. See also the following source provided by the "1000 Quotes Project": Plutarch. Plutarch’s Lives, Vol 3. Translated by Bernadotte Perrin. The Macmillan Co: New York. 1916. Pg 59 or 60. Archived from the original on November 10, 2022. The aforementioned source is available online as The Parallel Lives by Plutarch published in Vol. III of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1916.
“Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.”
— As quoted in Homage to Greece (1943)
“Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.”
— As quoted in The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper (1966). Book II, chapter 40.
“Our constitution does not copy the laws of neighboring states; we are rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves”
— 2.37
“Nor is it any longer possible for you to give up this empire … Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.”
— Book 2, chapter 63: Pericles' third speech
“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.”
— As translated by Richard Crawley (1951)

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Pericles was a Greek statesman and general during the Golden Age of Athens. He was prominent and influential in Ancient Athenian politics, particularly between the Greco-Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War, and was acclaimed by Thucydides, a contemporary historian, as "the first citizen of Athens". Pericles turned the Delian League into an Athenian empire and led his countrymen during the first two years of the Peloponnesian War. The period during which he led Athens as its preeminent orator and statesman, roughly from 461 to 429 BC, is sometimes known as the "Age of Pericles", but the period thus denoted can include times as early as the Persian Wars or as late as the following century.

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“Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.”
— From Plutarch, Lives, Pericles, sec. 18. See also the following source provided by the "1000 Quotes Project": Plutarch. Plutarch’s Lives, Vol 3. Translated by Bernadotte Perrin. The Macmillan Co: New York. 1916. Pg 59 or 60. Archived from the original on November 10, 2022. The aforementioned source is available online as The Parallel Lives by Plutarch published in Vol. III of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1916.
“Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.”
— As quoted in Homage to Greece (1943)
“Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.”
— As quoted in The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper (1966). Book II, chapter 40.
“Our constitution does not copy the laws of neighboring states; we are rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves”
— 2.37
“Nor is it any longer possible for you to give up this empire … Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.”
— Book 2, chapter 63: Pericles' third speech
“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.”
— As translated by Richard Crawley (1951)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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