We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
PERICLES
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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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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Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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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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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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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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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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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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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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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend 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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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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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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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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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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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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