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40.
We cultivate refinement without extravagance and knowledge without
effeminacy; wealth we employ more for use than for show, and place the real disgrace of
poverty not in owning to the fact but in declining the struggle against it.
[2]
Our public men have, besides politics, their private affairs to attend to,
and our ordinary citizens, though occupied with the pursuits of industry,
are still fair judges of public matters; for, unlike any other nation, regarding him who takes no part in these
duties not as unambitious but as useless,
we Athenians are able to judge at
all events if we cannot originate, and instead of looking on discussion as a
stumbling-block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable
preliminary to any wise action at all.
[3]
Again, in our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and
deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united in the same
persons; although usually decision is the fruit of ignorance, hesitation of
reflection.
But the palm of courage will surely be adjudged most justly to those, who
best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never
tempted to shrink from danger.
[4]
In generosity we are equally singular,
acquiring our friends by conferring
not by receiving favors.
Yet, of course, the doer of the favor is the firmer friend of the two, in
order by continued kindness to keep the recipient in his debt; while the debtor feels less keenly from the very consciousness that the
return he makes will be a payment, not a free gift.
[5]
And it is only the Athenians who, fearless of consequences, confer their
benefits not from calculations of expediency, but in the confidence of
liberality.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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