About this user
This is my favorite speech by Perclies, who was a statesman of Ancient Athens.
"For our government is not copied from those of our neighbors; We are an example to them rather than they to us. Our constitution is named a democracy because it is in the hands not of the few but of the many. But our laws secure equal justice for all their private disputes, and our public opinion welcomes and honors talent in every branch of achievement, not for any sectional reason but on the grounds of excellence alone. As as we give free play to all in our public life, so we carry the same spirit into our daily relations with one another. We are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without unmanliness. Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think is no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degradation to make no effort to overcome. Our citizens attend both to public and private duties, and do not allow absorption in their own various affairs to interfere with their knowledge of the city's. We differ from other states in regarding the man who holds aloof from public life not as quiet but as useless; we decide or debate, carefully and in person, all matters of policy, holding not that words and deeds go ill together but that acts are foredoomed to failure when undertaken undiscussed. For we are noted for being at once adventurous in action and most reflective beforehand. Other men are bold in ignorance, while reflection will stop their onset. But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, yet not withstanding go out to meet it. In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece, and that her members yield to none, man by man, for independence of spirit, many-sideness of attainment, and complete self reliance in limbs and brain." - Pericles defense of democracy.
Interests
Reading nonfiction, watching intelligent videos and increasing my understanding of things, I like studying physics and the nature of the universe. The world is truly an amazing thing and life is probably the most astounding part of it.
