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

Pericles

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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Against Failure Grace Poverty Struggle
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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Death Grief Loss Want
The marketplace is democratic.
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Demorcracy Market One Liner
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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Admit Ashame Escape Measure Poverty Practical Real Shame
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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Broken Heart Cut Destroy Easy Man Quick Tree
A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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Glory Goodness Ill Men Talk Women
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Age Future Present Wonder
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
We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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Imitate Model Reality
We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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Against Failure Grace Poverty Struggle
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Judgment Policy
It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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Courage Endurance Enemy Face God Resignation
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
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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Beautiful Love Mind Soft
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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Action Discussion Indispensable Stumble Wise
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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Action Discussion Indispensable Stumble Wise

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