Funeral Oration
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urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0540.tlg002.perseus-eng2:77
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But in truth I do not know what need there is to lament so sadly: for we were quite aware that we were mortals. So why chafe now at the fate which we so long expected, or be so extremely distressed by the calamities of nature, when we know well that death is common to the basest and the noblest alike?
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