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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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This quotation is likely a modern paraphrasing of a longer passage from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, II.43.3.

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

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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.

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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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