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.
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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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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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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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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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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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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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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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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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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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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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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The marketplace is democratic.
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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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Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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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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