Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
PERICLESTime is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend 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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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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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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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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Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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The marketplace is democratic.
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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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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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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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