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.
PERICLESFor famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
More Pericles Quotes
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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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The marketplace is democratic.
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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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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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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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Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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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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It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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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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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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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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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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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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