History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
Thucydides. The history of the Peloponnesian War, Volume 1-2. Dale, Henry, translator. London: Heinemann and Henry G. Bohn, 1851-1852.
Nay, we are the only men who fearlessly benefit any one, not so much from calculations of expediency, as with the confidence of liberality.
"In short, I say that both the whole city is a school for
Greece, and that, in my opinion, the same individual would amongst us prove himself qualified for the most varied kinds of action, and with the most graceful