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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

Pericles

It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Agrument Belly Difficult Ears
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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Alone Children Counsel Danger Equality General Man Risk Weight Worth
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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Engrave Live Monument Past Stone
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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Chase Poverty Shame Work
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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Dangerous Empire Let Go Wrong
I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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Afraid Design Enemy Mistake
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Celebrity Earth Famous Memorial Men
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wise
Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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Action Capable People Politics Support Survival
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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Crave Grave King Men Parents Time
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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Humor Interest Politics
The marketplace is democratic.
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Demorcracy Market One Liner
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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Clear Express Ideas Knowledge Lack Power
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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Brave Clear Danger Glory Meet Vision
Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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Action Express Level Philosophy Themselves Thinking
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wait Wise

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