As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
PERICLESHaving knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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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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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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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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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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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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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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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Time is the wisest counsellor of 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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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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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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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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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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