As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
PERICLES
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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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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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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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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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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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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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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The marketplace is democratic.
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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
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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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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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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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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
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Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
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