Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
PERICLESA woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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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 more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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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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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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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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The marketplace is democratic.
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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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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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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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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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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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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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