We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
PERICLESThose who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of 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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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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The marketplace is democratic.
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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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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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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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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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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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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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