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.
PERICLESAs 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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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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The marketplace is democratic.
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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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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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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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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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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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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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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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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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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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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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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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