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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

Pericles

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
PERICLES

Broken Heart Cut Destroy Easy Man Quick Tree
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
PERICLES

Counsellor One Liner Time Wait Wise
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
Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
PERICLES

Business Earth Eat Fish Men Power Sea
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
The marketplace is democratic.
PERICLES

Demorcracy Market One Liner
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
PERICLES

Age Future Present Wonder
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
PERICLES

Counsellor Growth Lesson Teaching Time Wise
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
Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
PERICLES

Dangerous Empire Let Go Wrong
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
PERICLES

Counsellor One Liner Time 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
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
It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
PERICLES

Disgrace Failure Rob
We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
PERICLES

Imitate Model Reality

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