Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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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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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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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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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It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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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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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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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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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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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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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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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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