For we are a city that is open to the world, and we never expel a foreigner from our midst, nor do we prevent anyone from learning or seeing anything, provided that by so doing he does not harm the state, for we are not afraid of strangers, but we are afraid of our own mistakes, and we are not afraid of our enemies, but we are afraid of our own mistakes.
— Pericles Ancient

Athenian statesman

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Funeral Oration, as recorded by Thucydides

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c. 431 BCE

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Shocking

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7142/7142-h/7142-h.htm

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