Glory And Danger Alike

But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

-- Pericles (ca. 495 BC - 429 BC), influential and important leader of Athens during the Athenian Golden Age (specifically, between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars), Pericles' Funeral Oration as reported in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 1