This is A Message to Keep Fighting by Pericles
Esteeming courage to be freedom and freedom to be happiness, do not weigh too nicely the perils of war.
“Every event has two handles: one by which it can be carried, and one by which it can’t.” — Epictetus
You have a vision for your future. A craft you want to excel in. Exams to pass. You want competence and freedom for all the good it can help you do. For stability and liberation from being told what to do.
Pericles, the Greek general and master strategist in peak Athens, gave this speech, called The Funeral Oration, in 431 BCE at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War.
The message was to give hope to his troops to keep fighting for their motherland after they got a devastating number of casualties in the first wave of battle.
He could have rallied his people to give up the fight. But he didn’t.
The spirit behind this oration reminds us who we are, how far we’ve come, and what we have to lose if we don’t keep fighting for what we love. For what we value most.
Enter Pericles, as narrated by the great historian — Thucydides:
"I should like to point …
