Pericles

Pericles (c. 495-429 BCE)

"A general ought not only to have clean hands, but also clean eyes."

• Quote attributed to Pericles by Plutarch in Parallel Lives (Life of Pericles, 8.5). The edition used here is from the Harvard Classics series, edited by Charles W. Eliot, and published by P. F. Collier & Son (1909, 1937).

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Thucydides

Thucydides (c. 460-400 BCE)

"Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the whole people."

• From a speech attributed to Pericles in the History of the Peloponnesian War (Book II, section 37) by Thucydides, translated by Rex Warner (Penguin Classics, 1972).  

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