Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
PERICLESThose who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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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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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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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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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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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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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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It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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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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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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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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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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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against 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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