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The marketplace is democratic.

Pericles

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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Afraid Design Enemy Mistake
We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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Against Failure Grace Poverty Struggle
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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Chase Poverty Shame Work
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
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
Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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Action Express Level Philosophy Themselves Thinking
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wait Wise
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wise
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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Dangerous Empire Let Go Wrong
We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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Against Failure Grace Poverty Struggle
It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Agrument Belly Difficult Ears
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
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Celebrity Earth Famous Memorial Men
We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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Imitate Model Reality
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Judgment Policy
Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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Action Capable People Politics Support Survival

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