It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
PERICLESAs 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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Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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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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We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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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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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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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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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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A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
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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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Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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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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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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