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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

Pericles

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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Crave Grave King Men Parents Time
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Judgment Policy
A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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Glory Goodness Ill Men Talk Women
Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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Action Express Level Philosophy Themselves Thinking
We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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Imitate Model Reality
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
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
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
It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Agrument Belly Difficult Ears
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Celebrity Earth Famous Memorial Men
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
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wise
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Age Future Present Wonder
The marketplace is democratic.
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Demorcracy Market One Liner
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
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

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

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