Pericles Quotes on What is Engraved in Stone Monuments
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
~ Pericles
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Pericles was a prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during its golden age – specifically the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. He was descended, through his mother, from the powerful and historically influential Alcmaeonid family. Born: 494 BC, Died: 429 BC.