A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
PERICLESBetter die standing than live kneeling.
More Pericles Quotes
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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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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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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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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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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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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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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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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of 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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The marketplace is democratic.
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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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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 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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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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