Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
PERICLESA woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend 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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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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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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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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It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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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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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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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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It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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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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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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The marketplace is democratic.
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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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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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