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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

Funeral Oration, Athens, 430 B.C., in Thucydides 'History of the Peloponnesian War' ii.40, 1 (translation by Rex Warner)
Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.