If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty.
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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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.
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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
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