Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
PERICLESIt is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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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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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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It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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The marketplace is democratic.
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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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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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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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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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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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