It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
PERICLESWho makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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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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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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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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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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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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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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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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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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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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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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The marketplace is democratic.
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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.
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