What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
PERICLES
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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from 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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Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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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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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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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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It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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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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