Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

About Pericles

Pericles (; Ancient Greek: Περικλῆς; c. 495–429 BC) was a Greek politician and general during the Golden Age of Athens. He was prominent and influential in Ancient Athenian politics, particularly between the Greco-Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War, and was acclaimed by Thucydides, a contemporary historian, as "the first citizen...

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