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Better die standing than live kneeling.

Pericles

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor Growth Lesson Teaching Time Wise
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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Beautiful Love Mind Soft
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wise
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wait Wise
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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Broken Heart Cut Destroy Easy Man Quick Tree
It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Agrument Belly Difficult Ears
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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Crave Grave King Men Parents Time
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Judgment Policy
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Celebrity Earth Famous Memorial Men
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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Alone Courage Defend Freedom Possession
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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Death Grief Loss Want
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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Engrave Live Monument Past Stone
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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Action Discussion Indispensable Stumble Wise
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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Deceit Fair Show
Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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Business Earth Eat Fish Men Power Sea
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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Admit Ashame Escape Measure Poverty Practical Real Shame

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