Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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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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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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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 famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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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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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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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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It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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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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Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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The marketplace is democratic.
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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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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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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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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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