It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
PERICLESIt is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
PERICLESHaving knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
PERICLESInstead 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.
PERICLESTrees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
PERICLESAs for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
PERICLESThose who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
PERICLESIt is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
PERICLESBetter die standing than live kneeling.
PERICLESIt is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
PERICLESAlthough only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
PERICLESThe 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.
PERICLESI am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
PERICLESTime is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
PERICLESWait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
PERICLESYour empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
PERICLESFor 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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