Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
PERICLESWe Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against 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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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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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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It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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The marketplace is democratic.
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We do not imitate, but are a model to 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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Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend 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 wisest counsellor of all.
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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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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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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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