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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.

Pericles

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
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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Death Grief Loss Want
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wise
A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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Glory Goodness Ill Men Talk Women
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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Deceit Fair Show
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
It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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Courage Endurance Enemy Face God Resignation
It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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Disgrace Failure Rob
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
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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Engrave Live Monument Past Stone
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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Beautiful Love Mind Soft
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Celebrity Earth Famous Memorial Men
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wait Wise
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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Dangerous Empire Let Go Wrong

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