Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.
PERICLESThose who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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For a man’s counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.
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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.
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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.
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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.
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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
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As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
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Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
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Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.
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Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
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Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.
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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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