Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
PERICLESOur 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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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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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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The marketplace is democratic.
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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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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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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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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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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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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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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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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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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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