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

Pericles

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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Death Grief Loss Want
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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Alone Children Counsel Danger Equality General Man Risk Weight Worth
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 right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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Courage Endurance Enemy Face God Resignation
Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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Business Earth Eat Fish Men Power Sea
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Judgment Policy
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Age Future Present Wonder
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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Action Discussion Indispensable Stumble Wise
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
We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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Imitate Model Reality
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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Deceit Fair Show
It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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Disgrace Failure Rob
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
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wise
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
I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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Afraid Design Enemy Mistake

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