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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.

— Pericles Eternal Greece (1961)

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'Tis time to fear, when tyrants seem to kiss.

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Homage to Greece (1943)

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

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