I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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.
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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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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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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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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 wisest counsellor of all.
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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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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 right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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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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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
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The marketplace is democratic.
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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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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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