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

Pericles

Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Judgment Policy
It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Agrument Belly Difficult Ears
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
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Age Future Present Wonder
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
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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Alone Courage Defend Freedom Possession
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
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
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
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
The marketplace is democratic.
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Demorcracy Market One Liner
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wait Wise
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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Broken Heart Cut Destroy Easy Man Quick Tree
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
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

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