What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
PERICLESHaving knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
More Pericles Quotes
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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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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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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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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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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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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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The marketplace is democratic.
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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge 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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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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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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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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