We cultivate refinement without extravagance and knowledge without effeminacy.
Athenian statesman
Funeral Oration, as recorded by Thucydides
c. 431 BCE
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"We are lovers of the beautiful, yet with economy, and we cultivate the intellect without effeminacy. Wealth we employ rather for use than for show, and we set more store by a confession of poverty tha…"
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