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So that although you may think it a great privation to lose the use of your
land and houses, still you must see that this power is something widely
different; and instead of fretting on their account, you should really regard them in
the light of the gardens and other accessories that embellish a great
fortune, and as, in comparison, of little moment.
You should know too that liberty preserved by your efforts will easily
recover for us what we have lost, while, the knee once bowed, even what you
have will pass from you.
Your fathers receiving these possessions not from others, but from
themselves, did not let slip what their labor had acquired, but delivered
them safe to you; and in this respect at least you must prove yourselves their equals,
remembering that to lose what one has got is more disgraceful than to be
baulked in getting, and you must confront your enemies not merely with
spirit but with disdain.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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