It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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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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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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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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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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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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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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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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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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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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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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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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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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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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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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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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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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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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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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