But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

Pericles (c. 495-429 BC) Greek statesman
Pericles’ Funeral Oration


As quoted in Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War.


 
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