We do not make our friends by receiving favors, but by conferring them, and we do not make our enemies by receiving injuries, but by inflicting them.
Athenian statesman
We do not make our friends by receiving favors, but by conferring them, and we do not make our enemies by receiving injuries, but by inflicting them.
Athenian statesman
Funeral Oration, as recorded by Thucydides
c. 431 BCE
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