What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
PERICLESThose who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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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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The marketplace is democratic.
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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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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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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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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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