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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.

Pericles

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
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
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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Deceit Fair Show
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wise
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
Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Attitude Die Knees Live One Liner
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
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
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Judgment Policy
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
It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Agrument Belly Difficult Ears
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 famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Celebrity Earth Famous Memorial Men
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
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.
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Humor Interest Politics
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wait Wise

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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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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