I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
PERICLESYour 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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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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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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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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It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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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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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 is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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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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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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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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