We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against 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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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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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 difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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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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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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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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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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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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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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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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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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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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