We are lovers of the beautiful, yet with economy, and we cultivate the intellect without effeminacy. Wealth we employ rather for use than for show, and we set more store by a confession of poverty than by a vaunt of riches.
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"Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think."
"Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others so long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself, but, when the speaker rises above him, jealousy is aroused and he begins t…"
"We do not make our friends by receiving favors, but by conferring them."
"We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all."
"We cultivate refinement without extravagance and knowledge without effeminacy."
From Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War', Pericles' Funeral Oration. This statement, while idealizing Athenian values, could be seen as subtly critical of other city-states or individuals who valued ostentatious wealth or lacked intellectual pursuits, thus being divisive in a broader Greek context.
Date: 431 BC (approximate, as recorded by Thucydides)
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