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.
PERICLESInstead 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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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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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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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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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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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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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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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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It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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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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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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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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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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