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| John Michael Rysbrack Edward Salter, aged six 1748 terracotta Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Gustave Deloye Young Woman of the 18th century ca. 1870-80 terracotta Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Philippe-Laurent Roland Portrait of a Young Man ca. 1785-95 terracotta Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Giuseppe Piamontini Venus and Cupid 1711 terracotta (modello for sculpture) Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Giovanni Battista Foggini David victorious over Goliath 1722 terracotta Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| attributed to Donatello Madonna and Child ca. 1410-15 terracotta Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Anonymous Italian Sculptor Copy of the Belvedere Torso 16th century terracotta Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| workshop of Bartolomeo Ammanati Bacchic Figure ca. 1550 terracotta Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Baccio da Montelupo St John the Baptist ca. 1500 terracotta Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Pontormo (Jacopo Carrucci) Holy Family ca. 1515 terracotta (modello for painting) Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Benedetto da Maino Portrait of Filippo Strozzi ca. 1475 terracotta Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Pierre Puget Hercules ca. 1660 terracotta Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Anonymous Austrian Sculptor Lamentation ca. 1515-20 terracotta relief Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Jacopo Sansovino Sacra Conversazione ca. 1530-40 terracotta relief Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Ancient Greek Culture Amphoriskos 550 BC terracotta (miniature vessel excavated on Samos) Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Louise Nevelson Untitled ca. 1947 painted terracotta, with metal rods Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
And Pericles the son of Xantippus, the principal man at the time of all Athens and most sufficient both for speech and action, gave his advice in such manner as followeth: "Men of Athens, I am still not only of the same opinion not to give way to the Peloponnesians (notwithstanding I know that men have not the same passions in the war itself which they have when they are incited to it but change their opinions with the events), but also I see that I must now advise the same things or very near to what I have before delivered. And I require of you with whom my counsel shall take place that if we miscarry in aught, you will either make the best of it, as decreed by common consent, or if we prosper, not to attribute it to your own wisdom only. For it falleth out with the events of actions, no less than with the purposes of man, to proceed with uncertainty, which is also the cause that when anything happeneth contrary to our expectation, we use to lay the fault on fortune. That the Lacedaemonians, both formerly and especially now, take counsel how to do us mischief is a thing manifest. For whereas it is said that in our mutual controversies we shall give and receive trials of judgment, and in the meantime either side hold what they possess, they never yet sought any such trial themselves, nor will accept of the same offered by us. They will clear themselves of their accusations by war rather than by words, and come hither no more now to expostulate but to command."
– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)