A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
PERICLESThose who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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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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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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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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For a man’s counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.
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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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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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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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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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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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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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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
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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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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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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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