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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.
PERICLES

Judgment Policy
I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
PERICLES

Afraid Design Enemy Mistake
It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
PERICLES

Courage Endurance Enemy Face God Resignation
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.
PERICLES

Death Grief Loss Want
Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
PERICLES

Action Express Level Philosophy Themselves Thinking
We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
PERICLES

Against Failure Grace Poverty Struggle
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.
PERICLES

Humor Interest Politics
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wait Wise
We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
PERICLES

Against Failure Grace Poverty Struggle
The marketplace is democratic.
PERICLES

Demorcracy Market One Liner
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
PERICLES

Alone Courage Defend Freedom Possession
Better die standing than live kneeling.
PERICLES

Attitude Die Knees Live One Liner
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
PERICLES

Celebrity Earth Famous Memorial Men
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.
PERICLES

Action Discussion Indispensable Stumble Wise
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor Growth Lesson Teaching Time Wise
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
PERICLES

Engrave Live Monument Past Stone

The marketplace is democratic.

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