Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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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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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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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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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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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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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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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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Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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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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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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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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