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.
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.
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It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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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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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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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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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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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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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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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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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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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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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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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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