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Better die standing than live kneeling.

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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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Action Express Level Philosophy Themselves Thinking
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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Broken Heart Cut Destroy Easy Man Quick Tree
We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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Against Failure Grace Poverty Struggle
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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Humor Interest Politics
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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Crave Grave King Men Parents Time
The marketplace is democratic.
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Demorcracy Market One Liner
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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Brave Clear Danger Glory Meet Vision
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wise
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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Deceit Fair Show
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Celebrity Earth Famous Memorial Men
It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Agrument Belly Difficult Ears
We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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Imitate Model Reality
Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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Action Capable People Politics Support Survival
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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Dangerous Empire Let Go Wrong
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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Beautiful Love Mind Soft
Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Attitude Die Knees Live One Liner

Better die standing than live kneeling.

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